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ricisidro · 10 months

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#Pachinko Ep7, on #AppleTvPlus, a backstory of history 100yrs ago — Sept. 1, 1923 Great #KantōEarthquake

(Yokohama, Chiba & Saitama) & #KantōMassacre, mass murder of #Zainichi, Koreans residing in Japan committed in its aftermath. Japan colonized Korea for 35 yrs from 1910-1945.

#Pachinko #appletvplus #Great Kanto Earthquake #Kanto Massacre #Zainichi #Instagram

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owl-deer · 2 months

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Continuation from the previous post: Oliver Dew, on "Pacchigi!"

It is interesting how, while "show not tell" is normally treated as a peak of visual media, when it comes to depictions of trauma and abuse, be that by government, by a group or by a person, is always more powerful when shared through storytelling, the oral testimony.

I think the big part of it is the subjectiveness of pain, and also that there's an element of reclaiming the agency here: when we don't focus on the horror-porn of the event itself but on the hurt and the need for compassion the event facilitated. It's the narrative, the storytelling where the victims finally have full authorship over the experience of something that was done to them.

Uninterrupted testimony, unfiltered reaction to the memory of the event is always the best, the most impactful.

#looking at you avatar live show adaptation #and you horror documentaries about Holocaust I had to watch as a child #Dear Pyongyang does it well actually #Zainichi #Japanese Koreans #the trauma narrative

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raziel011def · 1 year

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If you think I'm not getting Jet posing like this and roided tf out. You got another thing comin'

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eirikswood · 1 year

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Kaneshiro-san (Mr. Kim) Dreams of Joseon Hats (and Knows No Homeland) - in 1945, there were 2.4 million newly decolonized Korean people living in Japan. Three-quarters of those rendered stateless and nameless (our grandfather among them) would "return home," repatriating a divided, occupied, and rapidly destabilizing peninsula on the cusp of war (1950-1953). The 600,000 that kept their Japanese names and stayed behind in Japan became Zainichi Kankokujin / Zainihon Chōsenjin - the invisible Koreans secretly passing for Japanese citizens, or those living openly as an underclass in ethnic enclave communities.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/eirikswood/kaneshiro-san-mr-kim-dreams-of-joseon-hats-and-knows-no-homeland/

#zainichi #korean art #korean history #ukiyoe #minhwa #oil on wood #aapi

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claryahn · 2 years

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And as I retreated into the future, the only thing I could ever see was the past.

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

#literature #yu miri #japanese literature #japanese #asian literature #book quote #quotes #quote of the day #culture #bookish #book blog #east asia #japan #korea #zainichi #psychology #books and libraries

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tanuki-kimono · 2 years

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[Being Japanese], documentary in 2 parts by Greg Lam from Life where I am from, tackling the subject of identity in Japanese so called “homogeneous” society (spoiler: it’s not as homogeneous as far right would like to believe). In Greg’s own words:

What makes a Japanese person Japanese? Is it the blood that runs through their veins? A parent they were born to? The country they grew up in? Is it how they look? How they act? How they speak? Their citizenship? A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.

Greg, father of 2 hâfu kids himself, went around interviewing several people about what they think about their identities and relation with Japan. Profils includes Ainu, “Okinawan”/Ryukyuan, but also Korean-descendants, nikkei/Japanese descendants, hâfu/biracial Japanese or kikokushijo/returnees. Second part of the documentary also covers refugees and naturalised/dual citizens (including a disabled person).

I can’t recommend you enough to watch this documentary! Be aware that some parts are difficult as they cover traumatic events/issues (racism, assault, etc) encountered by the interviewees. However, Greg Lam never falls prone to tearjerking, and many passages are amazingly covered!

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vitalconviction · 4 months

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Vincent Valentine for the ask game?

Sexuality Headcanon:

Unlabelled, but if hard pressed will say "doesn't make a difference to me" -- I also think he's full on demiromantic

Before he 'dies' for the first time I think he was quite casual about sex and the like in Midgar which was mostly a hobby of sorts since there wasn't actually much else to do in Midgar after the initial coolness factor wore off

After he wakes up different though, he's repressed city. The drive is still there, or it would be if he looked for it and if someone in particular he was soft on prodded him--but he is almost always rocking some level of derealization or depersonalization, if not totally dissociative in general so you have to Ground him first.

Romantically... eeh he's less restrictive on that because he's making the rightly false assumption he couldn't possibly be human enough to feel something, you know, NICE instead of BAD AND SHAME AND GUILT ALL THE TIME!

Gender Headcanon:

This one was a shrug always, just a vague who cares thing! I think overall he's GNC and likely agender or something along the lines of nonbinary, but after coming back wrong he's mostly concerned about whether or not he's even still a human so the gender thing is just beyond him LOL -- If anything, the lack of gender in general he feels after coming back probably plays into his fear of not being human anymore

As for how he presented himself, as a Turk he would be sauntering around below plate in whatever he thought looked pretty enough OR if it looked cool enough--whether it be a camisole with a dark colored lipstick that had alluring packaging Or a blazer he found that had amazing fabric that seemed to change colours in light! He's drawn to the abstract qualities of stuff!

As red bandana man, if he isn't sauntering around in his cloak, he's sauntering around in the most nondescript clothes ever. In the process of his slow recovery, given that he recovers, I think he would be inclined to go for a full-on androgynous look which would be the most comfortable for him. For work, though, he really associates it with masculine presentation so he feels quite weird when he makes the gradual shift Lol

A ship I have with said character:

VINSENG! Valenstrifesodos is also great :D I can be drawn in by the idea of Vinseph but in practice, ehhh, it doesn't fully hit LOL --also past-vinveld/future-vinveld, or even vinreeve, those two also are nice ships if the other guys aren't available to kiss vincent themselves

Vinseng is seriously the ship I have for him, and it's all based off the one au I have rattling around in my baby brain. TLDR for the ship basis is, Vincent finds purpose in caring for others and has chronically and historically been the person who cared too much for the role he was in. Tseng is literally THE SAME GUY but he didn't get turned into a science experiment. Every compilation expansion featuring Tseng has further added the narrative of him being far too invested personally, having too much compassion, caring in the way turks aren't supposed to.

They're both internally in opposition to their roles, still view it as a necessary evil (Tseng in particular doing mental gymnastics that would make an olympic gold medalist blush), think they're bad guys, and are RIPE for atonement but neither of them have canonically moved towards helping themselves because it's their disposition to let themselves rot. They both tried, and failed spectacularly, in going against their roles, with Tseng in trying to save Zack and directly going against the company and trying his damndest to keep Shinra away from Aerith for as long as possible--and Vincent in trying to stop the experiments on Lucrecia, and therefore also on Sephiroth. If they had been successful they would have literally changed the course of the entire fucking story.

I think if you smashed them in a room together and forcibly socialized them like two cats, which is what happens in my au, they would do the thing they always do which is care too fucking much. In this way, they seriously have the capacity to slowly heal together! I just want their cycles of pain and violence and self loathing to break man.

A BROTP I have with said character:

Honestly, not any! I suppose Barret and Nanaki would fit this dyanmic though! I really like seeing it in fics so I'll go with this :D

A NOTP I have with said character:

Vincent and Hojo existing in a relationship together, namely with Lucrecia. I can't even entertain the thought of Vincent/Hojo in general--and I mean this in a romantic ship sense, fucked up stuff I'm so down for, but I take ship to mean literal relationship in which there is a semblance of happiness LOL

Honestly Vincent/Cid is the only true NOtp for me because I can see someone who was an abuse victim falling back in with another abusive person, but I can't imagine myself liking this ship in any circumstance LOL I don't even like it in the fucked up way. I just am not the biggest fan of Cid I've found.

A random headcanon(s):

His mother was absent and he never met her, and his father was negligent in that he was abroad for work and rarely spared time for Vincent, so his childhood was pretty lonely.

He's from one of the islands off the coast of Wutai, their region was under occupation and he was almost displaced. He grew up under the occupation and subsequently learned their language as a tool of survival. During the fullstart of the fight back against the Kisaragi led occupation, his father panicked and pulled strings to get Vincent out. He started going fulltime to university as a student after that and even graduated early but it still wasn't what he wanted, so he left for Midgar.

Names and stuff of the place and language of the Island he's from I'm sparse on as I haven't gotten around to settling on etymology, but generally the basis will be Korean and Thai oriented :D In a similar vein, the Midgar language I had considered Nordic but since they're directly next to the plains there's probably Celtic too, but since the President Shinra is THE white guy of all time in the story I gravitate towards calling the language in Midgar Seaxe (anglo-saxon)

General Opinion over said character:

I LOVE YOU BANDANA MAN! This guy deserves to heal so hard. FUCK! He's an amazing character and I want to put him in so many situations. I also want to put him in my mouth like a chew toy.

#ff7 #vincent valentine #ask meme #main ff7 au #sort of #I put a diluted portion of my worldbuilding in there #I had to hold myself back from overexplaining #Listen if anything about it sounds superficial IT IS BECAUSE I HELD BACK NOT BECAUSE I HAVENT MULLED THIS OVER AND TORN IT ALL APART #MY LINGUISTICS INTEREST IS SHOWING #guys he would be zainichi in a modern context #if it isnt clear i am basing this mostly off of imperial japan #one day ill write the damn document detailing my wutai worldbuilding #tldr is wutai has never been united #the kisaragis got their power with violence #the usual historical empire stuff #but its along the lines of atlas melting pot incorporation of culture

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tananansad · 3 months

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sorry i know this is just 무엇 보다도 무엇 보다도 in yale romanization but just. Just let me have this one okay

#MYOOS POH TAY TOH MYOOS POH TAY TOH #thanks mrs song i do love my muse potatos #linguistics #language #lingblr #langblr #korean #한국어 #zainichi korean to be exact

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just-sp-in-inginthevoid · 1 year

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We know the Kamo practice concubinage and Noritoshi's mother was a concubine. Since he's seen as illegitimate that means she was what is called an unofficial concubine

I'm not sure what can make a concubine unofficial (without mentioning how would their child be consider illegitimate when the main wife could adopt concubines' son(s) and.. well I guess that made them legitimate(which I am sure nori's father's wife had to do)) BUT I can think of reasons

I didn't find one I liked though but now. Now I have my headcanon (that I wish won't be crushed by canon one day)

Noritoshi's mom is a second/third generation Zanryū

What's a Zanryū ? Glad you ask !

In 1945, (russia) the USSR attacked Manchuria, a Japanese puppet state (which is nowadays a northeast Chinese territory, north to North Korea (that's a too short explanation, youd have to do your own researches about that one sorry)). Nobody expected that, and the Japanese had to retreat

Soldiers first.

Some men did succeed to bring back their wife and children with them but most didn't. Thousands were left behind and died bc urss and the Japanese gouvernement didn't want to bring them back, going as far as to say some of them were dead

Those people the Japanese gouvernement abandoned are what we call Zanryū. But it doesn't stop here

In the 80s, 40 years later, Japanese gouvernement began a repatriation for Zanryū. Because it refused to give Japanese nationality to children who had Chinese father, lots ofJapanese women stayed in China where they had rebuilt their life. Orphans who were adopted in Chinese family and never told about their origins didn't came back as well (for obvious reasons)(and those who did know probably didn't decide to go to Japan either). Those who (re)married Japanese men came back (alongside those Japanese men and people who didn't get married(with how it was at the time, I don't think there were much if any))

Except. Their children had been raised as Chinese, most didn't speak Japanese or did but poorly. I think you know this but Japan hates when people can't fit in the mold (and there's also the hate/racism they have against Chinese (and Korean(we can see similar stories between Zanryū and Zanichi)(what are Zanichi ? (Descendants of) South & North Koreans who were forcefully moved to Japan between 1910 and 1945 basically)(half of nowadays Zanichi Koreans generation don't have the Japanese nationality even though they were born and raised there)). Even when they are 100% Japanese by blood. They're hatred upon because they aren't 'completely' Japanese. They behave too much like Chinese

( - Unrelated but the current most dangerous/threatening crime organization in Japan is composed of Zanryū descendants. Which was created bc they couldn't - were refused to - fit in)

So yeah. I decided Norimom was a second/third generation Zanryū/the daughter of Zanryū (no need to think far to see why the Jujutsu Society would refuse to make her an official concubine)

#jjk headcanon #noritoshi kamo #jjk noritoshi #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #norimom #jjk headcanons #i actually thought about her being a zainichi korean once but idk #my brain didn't vibe with the idea

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jpopstreaming · 6 months

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🎶🏆 「クーポン」 by Zainichi Funk (from single クーポン) has made it to our list of favorite tracks of the year! Give it a listen and explore some of our top picks from the year on Spotify 🎧 https://spoti.fi/42HdAgd

#Zainichi Funk #Japanese music #Jmusic #Jpop #Japan

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shihlun · 2 years

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Yoichi Sai

- All Under the Moon

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#yoichi sai #all under the moon #崔洋一 #月はどっちに出ている #japanese film #1993 #zainichi korean

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faceclaims13 · 2 years

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Hiii!!! I hope you are doing good. Can i please request a faceclaim who is Japanese-Korean ethnically (apart from Giselle please), If not then could you give me a female who has a flirty vibe. No problem if you couldn't find one. Hope you have a nice day !!. (✿◠‿◠)

Hi!!! Sorry for the delay 😭😭😭 Here are some Japanese-Korean face claims! Hope you like them! ☺️

Kiko Mizuhara - You probably already know her 🤣 she's 31, she's a model and an actress too. Her mother is a Zainichi Korean (descendants of ethnic Koreans who emigrated to Japan during colonial times and stayed there after WWII) and her father is a white American man.

Ayumi Lee - 37 years old, model, singer and actress. Her mother is Korean and her father is a second generation Zainichi Korean.

Mina Otomonai/Chanmina - 23 years old, model and singer. Her mother is Korean and her father is Japanese. I feel like she has the flirty vibe you're looking for 🤭

Lee Hyunri - 35 years old. Actress. Korean born in Japan.

I hope these help you, I couldn't find a lot of them 😭 if you still want some face claims with this flirty vibe let me know!

#asian face claim #face claim #faceclaim #rp help #face claim help #mixed face claim #mixed fc #mixed women #zainichi koreans

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venusvity · 1 year

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for aki u could also go on the zainichi road (like kiko mizuhara) thus u could take an ethnically korean fc but akiko would still be a japanese citizen this way you would have more resource by taking a kpop idol (i really like aki btw and i kinda miss her ;( hope you'll be sometimes inspired to write about her /gen)

i actually have thought about kiko before bc i adore her but wasnt sure if i wanted to go the zainichi route. i just realized i read this ask wrong and thought you were suggesting kiko so i compiled all the japanese fcs i've thought about using for aki kfngdkjfgn BUT if yall have any korean fcs you could see fitting aki just let me know!! here are the faces i compiled for her so far:

but! i hope i get some muse for her soon as well nonnie. i think shifting her plot away from her family drama and finding a solid fc for her will help me actually start properly writing for her again <33

#im totally open to making her zainichi so throw any suggestion yall have my way <3333

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stumpyjoepete · 2 years

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Piece of the Berlin wall in the (Korean Buddhist) Unification Temple:

They also have a memorial for the victims of the Jeju massacre.

#history #the chо̄sen people #big in japan #completely unrelated to the moonies in case you were wondering #it's just a zainichi landmark in osaka

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owl-deer · 2 months

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Dew, Oliver. Zainichi Cinema: Korean-in-Japan Film Culture. 1st ed. 2016., pp. 47-48

#Zainichi Koreans #Japanese Cinema #What in the name?#Japanese minority cinema deals with otherness in a very interesting way #I think it would translate wonderfully into heteronormativity and the performance of gender #Japanese Koreans

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shougancid · 3 months

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Mari is pretty serious but she likes to fuck with people by pretending she's a tourist. Definitely the type to pretend she doesn't understand what someone is saying and then turning around and responding to them in their native language last minute, especially if they've been talking shit.

#➤ h e a d c a n o n┊ ❛ the picture isn't pretty but it's perfect ❜#mari's only a troll when it's a power move #people tend to assume she's american because she doesn't look japanese which tbf makes sense because her mum's japanese and zainichi korea #and her dad's afro-cuban but spent a lot of time in the US so she grew up trilingual and speaks English with an American accent

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