Scuss about current cultural shift in contemporary Japanese
Japan's brutal colonial rule over the Korean peninsula during the first half of the 20th Century left many Koreans distrustful of their larger neighbor. Therefore South Korean government banned importing Japanese cultures including music and films after the liberation. It was only in 1998 that South Korea's government began to relax a ban on distributing and selling Japanese pop music and films. This had a great impact in Korea, but more in Japan as Korean marketers decided to occupy Japanese market. While ethnic Koreans make up the largest minority in Japan, they have often faced discrimination and been treated as second-class citizens. Second class citizen includes an aboriginal Japanese people in Japanese society and they have alien registration card which foreigners obtain. Even in APU there are few Korea
A similar wave of interest swept the country during the 1988 Seoul Olympics. But Korea's pop stars and actors still have some way to go before they can truly be rid of the ghosts of the past that continue to haunt relations between Korea and Japan, but the recent trends confirms that their relationship is becoming better everyday. There nationality is stated as Japanese but still treated with discrimination. By sharing common interest, it would bring the relationship with Korea and Japan closer. " Korean cultural storm is also happening in South East Asia including China and Taiwan. Fortunately, these attitudes are changing. It would be a lot easier without nightmares of invasion of Japan in the previous past. I believe Korean cultural boom in Japan is a procedure for Japanese culture to proceed to the next level in order to form a new society with different trend. This is not the first time that Japan has taken a cultural interest in Korea. The territorial fight over islands, Ul lung Do, the continued lack of voting rights for Korean-Japanese and other discrimination they get, and accusations of Japanese textbooks that whitewashes the behavior of Japanese troops during World War II hoping they could make the new generation forget about what they have done to innocent Korean people. Japan had not yet apologized for what they had done previously, but it is becoming the matter of past, as young people today does not seem to mind about what had happened. Korean pop star BoA now tops the Japanese charts and 'Brotherhood', which is a Korean movie about Korean War, took the Japanese box office by storm this summer. n-Japanese, known as ethnic Korean, who can not speak Korean at all. Yon-sama is so popular that even Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi recently joked, "Yon-sama is more popular than me.
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