Zainichi, Koreans in Japan 在日

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Today, there are no less than 613,000 on the Archipelago: but who are Zainichi? The term, which literally means "to be in Japan," can refer to Korean immigrants who arrived or were deported to Japan before the partition of Korea in 1953.

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