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Originally Posted by GoNative
Yeah I'd agree. Racism towards westerners is pretty limited but the Chinese and South Koreans aren't so well tolerated.
Not sure of the exact reasons for this but it may be a bit of a hangover from the past. Let's face it when you are about to go and invade a whole lot of countries like Japan did in the 30's and 40's you generally use a lot of governement propaganda to demonise and denegrate those you're about to go and kill, torture and enslave. It makes it easier for the general populace to stomach that kind of behaviour if they think very little of the people your invading. Hitler of course used similar propaganda to get his people behind the atrocities he went on to commit. Not sure if this is right but maybe a plausible reason.
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Ironically enough, the South Korea public
(the civilian level) has been minimalizing anti-Japanese sentiments in the past. Some helps from young educated Japanese who work in the South Korean government or anything and actually granted a South Korean citizenship, some help from the the late President Roh's extensive reforms of the civilian social sectors.
Let's not forget that the group of people in Japan who has the most grudge against the Japanese government is the
Zainichi Kankokujin (Koreans who came to Japan prior to the end of the Japanese colonialism; and the end of the Korean War with a bad disservice by the American military).
Newcomer Koreans (South Koreans who came to Japan since the late 1980s but finally established recently as a "different" group from the ZK) have less and less problems against the Japanese government these days.