In article <9U6Fa.54$6W4.56374@news.uswest.net>, 
nospam@nospam.net (Kay) wrote:
:I have no ill feelings toward the Japanese unless I run into one
:who still think Koreans are inferior to them only because
:they are Koreans.

This and ...

:The fact is that this is what makes 
:many Japanese to still look upon
:Koreans as something less than human.  This is a fact.
:I have a sister-in-law who is married to a Japanese.  
:What bothers her is just about every time they go into a 
:"fight," he brings up this issue that Koreans are inferior 
:to Japanese. It drives her crazy and the fight gets worse.  
:The fact is she is a lot smarter than he.
:I don't think this is an isolated incident.

this clearly contradicts each other.
You find a person you do not like, and generalize the resentment to the 
whole population, which I think you define as racist.

:>It's not true. Many ethnic Koreans in Kansai are assholes treating the
:>Japanese as slaves. They insist that they are "sangokujin" and they
:>are the winners of the war, then treat us like slaves violently.
:
:I still stand by what I said.  Koreans do not treat 
:Japanese like slaves.  Koreans do not have such power,
:especially in Japan.  

You do not know the history.  He was talking about Japan under USA
occupation.  Japan did not hace the soverignity for seven years.

:As a matter of fact, many Koreans in Japan are there
:because the Japanese government drafted them out of
:Korea to use them for slave labor.  Again, learn
:history, not from slanted Japanese history books.

Again, I think you had better do exactly as your preach.

The majority of Korean residents in Japan today are NOT the descendants
of the draftees.  At the end of the WWII, there were about 2 million Korean
residents in Japan.  According to GHQ policy, Japan returned 1.4 million
Koreans back home using Japanese tax money.  

Draftees were about 0.6 million, and since the drafting was done duing 
the last nine (depending on how you count them) years, they happily 
returned home.  Those who remained were those who entered Japan not
as draftees but as voluntary workers, long before the drafting started.  
This can be evidnced by the age of the first generation Koreans.  Since they 
owned less in Peninsula and more in Japan, they stayed.  Even according to Mindan 
survey, which is of course pro-Korea biased, only 13 % of the first 
generation Korean residents in Japan were draft-related.  They have 
already admitted the rest, 87%, are not the descendants of draftees.

During the occupation era (1945-1952), the Korean war (1950) caused the 
influx of Koreans to Japan again.  Some of them successfully sneaked into Japan,
and faked the foreign registration.  You think I am "spinning" the
history?  Let's listen to the account of one Korean resident.  This is
from the honorable Chousen Shimpou, the offical gazzete of Chonryon,
which organizes NK sympathizers among Korean residents in Japan.

 http://www.korea-np.co.jp/douhou-hiroba/hou-soudan/hon9709.htm
あなたのように、本名と外国人登録上の氏や名が異なっている事例は多くあります。

　実は私も朝鮮学校に通っていた時代には「尹（ユン）」という氏を使用していま
した。戦後、父が密航で日本にやってきて、他人の外国人登録を買ったためでした。
そのため、親族と会うときは「洪（ホン）」の氏を使用し、学校では「尹」の氏を
使用しました。

Here I translate it as:
   "Similar to your case, there are numerous cases that real surname
and first name are different from those appear on foreigner registration.

To tell the truth, when I was attending to (North) Korean school (in Japan), I was 
using the family name 'Yung (?).' This is because my father sneaked into
Japan after the war, and bought a forigner registration from other person.
This is why I use my family name 'Hong (?)' when I meet relatives, and used
'Yung' at school."

He has so Japanized that he used 氏, instead of 姓, BTW.

:When the emperor mentioned his Korean heritage,
:there were many Japanese who were quite angry about it.
:Why?  Why is it shameful of truth?  These things
:reinforce Koreans' hatred of Japanese.
:I did not blame him.  I lauds him for what he did.
:I blame the Japanese rightwing who condemn the 
:emperor for it, though.

Regarding Akihito's remark, I don't understand why it excites the Koreans.
It is no secret that there were many immigrants from the Peninsula, 
especially after the fall of Paekche in 7th century.  Some of them are
listed in the name list of elites.

:I was not blaming you.  I was talking about generic
:Japanese.  As long as Japanese has this attitude,
:Korean hatred of Japanese will remain.  You cannot
:ask Korean behave saintly when Japanese behave like boors.

Then why do you expect the Japanese to behave like saints?
Logical conclusion of your argument seems to me that the Koreans are
eternal enemy of the Japanese, which exactly what Kim Jong Il and his
beloved worker party preaches in North Korea right now.