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In 2015, Ariana Miyamoto, who was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and an African-American father, became the first hāfu (a term denoting mixed ancestry) contestant to win the title of Miss Universe Japan. [4] The decision to allow Miyamoto to win the title, as she is not full Japanese by descent, was controversial. [5]
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, ... (≈ 2.6 km 2) in the Hongkou District of the Empire of Japan, ...
The Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately one square mile (2.6 km 2) in the Hongkou district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the ghetto was located in the southern Hongkou and southwestern Yangpu districts which formed part of the Shanghai International Settlement).
The Inagawa-kai is the third-largest yakuza family in Japan, with roughly 3,300 members. It is based in the Tokyo-Yokohama area and was one of the first yakuza families to expand its operations outside of Japan. Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi (神戸山口組, Kōbe-Yamaguchi-gumi) The Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi is the fourth-largest yakuza family, with 3,000 ...
An increase in tensions between Japan and North Korea in the late 1990s led to a surge of attacks against Chongryon, the pro-North residents' organisation, including a pattern of assaults against Korean schoolgirls in Japan. [28] The Japanese authorities have recently started to crack down on Chongryon with investigations and arrests.
The ghetto was strictly isolated by Japanese soldiers under the command of the Japanese official Kano Ghoya, [12] and Jews could only leave it with special permission. Some 2,000 of them died in the Shanghai Ghetto during the wartime period. [13] However, Japan refused to adopt an official policy against the Jews.
The burakumin (部落民, 'hamlet/village people') are a social grouping of Japanese people descended from members of the feudal class associated with kegare (穢れ, 'impurity'), mainly those with occupations related to death such as executioners, gravediggers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, and tanners.
A real Jewish girl in Shanghai with her Chinese friends, from the collection of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum The Shanghai Ghetto in 1943. During the Second World War, approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing German-occupied Europe were given an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou District of Shanghai by the Japanese Empire, designated the Restricted Sector for ...