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The Federation of Korean Associations, Japan (Korean: 재일본한국인연합회; Hanja: 在日本韓國人聯合會; Short name: 한인회; Japanese: 在日本韓国人連合会) is an ethnic association for Koreans in Japan. It caters primarily to recent South Korean emigrants. It is headquartered in Shin-Ōkubo, Tokyo, Japan. [1]
The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, [4] abbreviated as Chongryon [4] (Korean: 총련; Hanja: 總聯; RR: Chongryeon; MR: Ch'ongryŏn) or Chōsen Sōren (Japanese: 朝鮮総連), [5] is one of two main organisations for Zainichi Koreans (Korean citizens or residents of Japan), the other being Mindan.
Mindan (Korean: 민단, Hanja: 民團), or the Korean Residents Union in Japan (Korean: 재일본대한민국민단, Japanese: 在日本大韓民国民団), is one of two main organizations for Koreans living in Japan, the other being Chongryon. Mindan has ties to South Korea and was established in 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. [1]
Japanese Korean or Korean Japanese might refer to: Japan-Korea relations; Japanese Korean Army; Japanese people in North Korea; Japanese people in South Korea; Korea under Japanese rule; Koreans in Japan, including Zainichi Koreans and Japanese citizens of Korean descent The Zainichi Korean language, a variety of Korean spoken in Japan
Restrictions of passage from the Korean Peninsula (April 1919–1922), the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, restrictions of passage from Busan (October 1925), opening of independent travel service by Koreans between Jeju and Osaka (April 1930), Park Choon-Geum was elected for the House of Representatives of Japan (February 1932), removal of restrictions of civil recruit from the Korean Peninsula ...
The Tokyo Korean Cultural Center (駐日韓国大使館 韓国文化院, Korean: 주일본 대한민국 대사관 문화원) is a Korean Cultural Center in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. [1] Supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture , this center offers Korean Language classes and promotes Korean culture in Japan through educational, sporting ...
In 1995, on the 50th anniversary of Korea's liberation, Park Gyeong-sik (박경식), a Japanese Korean historian, launched a campaign to create a museum, but it failed to gain traction. [1] [3] A breakthrough came in 2002, when Mindan (also called the Korean Residents Union in Japan) pledged financial support for the museum. They hoped to open ...
He was also a director of the Japanese Association for Comparative Politics, research collaborator of the sub-committee on the modern history at the First Japan-Korea Collaborative History Research Committee, which was established by the agreement between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in 2001 ...