Masaichi Kaneda was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher of Zainichi Korean origin, one of the best-known pitchers in Japanese baseball history, and is the only Japanese pitcher to have won 400 games. He was inducted in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.
Kaneda in 1956
Koreans in Japan comprise ethnic Koreans who have permanent residency status in Japan or who have become Japanese citizens, and whose immigration to Japan originated before 1945, or who are descendants of those immigrants. They are a group distinct from South Korean nationals who have immigrated to Japan after the end of World War II and the division of Korea.
The second Kobe riots in 1950
Repatriation of Koreans from Japan, January 1960
Classroom at Tokyo Korean High School with photographs of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
Image: Masayoshi Son (孫正義) on July 11, 2008