Emma's In Stock’s Reviews > Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan > Status Update

That was in the 1970s

Kim Il-Sung and the Japanese govt at the time w/ the assistance of the Japanese Red Cross facilitated the “return” of almost 100k zainichi to North Korea. Kim later admitted that the North Korean govt kidnapped Japanese people off of beaches

I didn’t know that Japan annexed and ruled Korea as a colony from 1910 to 1945. The colony was called “Chōsen”/Joseon

zainichi (ethnically Korean people living in Japan)

Ramen started off Chinese, but became something distinctly local (Japanese?) with the addition of soy sauce and a Japanese stock made from dried seaweed.
Ramen has Chinese roots

Chinese people began coming to Japan as translators for the foreigners that came to Japan when it stopped being a closed country (Sakoku) after 1853

ok so we're going from Japan, to Korea, to China, to Taiwan, and then back to Japan in this book.
we're also starting in 1853