Commemoration of the Utoro Peace Memorial on its first anniversary: hope for coexistence overcoming hate.
(Submitted by: Tsukasa Kyuji) During the Second World War in the Utoro area of Kyoto, Korean laborers were gathered and mobilized for the construction of a Japanese military base. After the war, they were abandoned and lived in poverty amid discrimination. Eventually, they were asked to evacuate by a Japanese company that had purchased the...