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@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law Meanwhile, South Korean Professors and Politicians running for mayor of Seoul and Busan South Korea, sent a written statement in support of Professor Ramseyer to Harvard University.

https://twitter.com/aino87445630/status/1359172934980440071?s=20

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law

https://twitter.com/aino87445630/status/1361322130592342018?s=20

..However, in the 30 years since the comfort women issue was raised, not a single document has been presented to prove that Korean women were forcibly taken away by Japanese government officials』

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law The South Korean scholars said,
"Foreigners who consider themselves conscientious are using this issue to complement their own ideology, which is hindering the normalization of Japan-South Korea relations".

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law The Status System in the Edo Period
1. Samurai, 2. Farmers, 3. Engineers, 4. Merchants, 5. Entertainers, 6. Leather-worker(5,6discriminated class)

The Kabuki actors were also a discriminated class, but they were big stars and made a lot of money, as did the leather-workers.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law The poorest were the lower class samurai.
That's why the Edo shogunate dared to put them in this order.

https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1361693038796537856?s=20

"Burakumin" means the descendants of people from the leather-workers' guild area, ..

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law but those (mostly mafia) who are not descendants of the leather-workers' guild area pretend to be Burakumin to blackmail the local government and defraud subsidies for the Burakumin.
This is a story that every Japanese person knows.
They are called "Ese-Buraku(Fake-Buraku)".

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law ”Within a few years, criminal entrepreneurs hijacked the new organ-ization, and pioneered a shakedown strategy that coupled violent accusations ofbias with demands for massive amounts of money. ”

Prof. Ramseyer is also absolutely correct in this point.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law In fact, in Japan, many former Burakumin have become top executives of major corporations.
The grandfather of Empress Masako(mother side), who was born in the Meiji era (1908), was a descendant of the discriminated class of the Edo era (Burakumin),

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law ..but he graduated from the University of Tokyo and became the president of a major corporation.
In Japan, the descendants of Burakumin can become the Empress of Japan. And we Japanese love and respect her.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law [What you don't know about Korean residents in Japan]

https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1361694159170633733?s=20

Even before the WW2, Koreans were not allowed to travel to Japan without permission.
However, many Korean men stowed away in Japan because they could make four times as much money there.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law The number of wartime workers who worked in Japanese coal mines and factories was only 249.
They all returned to Korea after the WW2.
It was the illegals who remained in Japan.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law Most of the Korean residents in Japan today are refugees from the 4.3 massacre on Jeju Island caused by the Syngman Rhee administration after the WW2 and the Korean War.
And Koreans continued to smuggle themselves to Japan even in1980's.

https://twitter.com/tokyoumare02/status/1358003829321605120?s=20

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law Koreans residing in Japan who are eligible for the Special Permanent Resident Permit should be those who have been living in Japan before 1945 and their descendants.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law But the Japanese government has not only granted the post-WW2 smugglers the Special Permanent Resident Permit, but also provided them with welfare.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law

https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1361810403790098437?s=20

As for the Great Kanto Earthquake, Prof.Ramseyer is also right.

On what basis do you say that "Koreans were massacred by hoax during the Great Kanto Earthquake"?

There are many articles about the crimes committed by Koreans after the earthquake.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law Looting, assault on women, arson, and bombs by a group of Koreans.

"A number of Korean terrorists were confirmed to have taken advantage of the Great Kanto Earthquake to carry out subversive activities under orders from the Koryo (Korean) Communist Party and other from abroad"

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law "A vigilante caught a Korean wandering near the town's only drinking water supply and found him in possession of poison"

”A Korean man took advantage of the darkness of the night and detonated a bomb, killing ＆wounding many Japanese man"

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law "A group of Koreans approached the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department planning to blow up the city, but were arrested shortly before the attack and had their bombs confiscated."

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law Despite the fact that there were many crimes committed by Koreans , the police could not keep up with the situation because it was immediately after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law It led to the formation of vigilante groups to protect people, and 233 Koreans were murdered because they committed looting, assaulting women, arson, and bombings.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law You may remember the devastation of the Great East Japan Earthquake 10 years ago.
At that time, not a single Japanese person committed robbery, arson, murder,etc.

@nick_kapur @Harvard_Law Don't you think Koreans to commit robberies, arson, bombings, and assaults on women under such circumstances was despicable?

You claim that the Japanese who stood up against them after the earthquake to protect their families from robbery, arson, bombing, and assault are evil.