Zainichi Korean Identity and Performing North Korean Music in Japan.
Of the approximately eight hundred thousand Koreans currently residing in Japan, the majority are descendants of people displaced to Japan as economic migrants, military servicemen, and World War II laborers during the Japanese colonization of Korea (1910–1945). With the partitioning of the Korean p...
| Publicado en: | Korean Studies Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 169 - 196 |
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University of Hawai'i
2019
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