A bolha norte-coreana no Japão : uma abordagem construtivista da comunidade Zainichi face às interações do cenário internacional.

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate that in Japan there is an ethnic group of Korean heritage called Zainichi, which belongs to a portion of the Japanese population and faces a harsh living reality due to its ambiguous identity and national affirmation. The present political and diplomatic tensions between North and South Korea and Japan result in the ethnic Koreans’ internal division between those who are particularly nationally tied with South Korea and or North Korea and those who have neither related ties, and those who are neither Japanese nationality holders, and their non-peaceful coexistence with right-wing nationalist groups within the Japanese social environment. In the present paper, a qualitative procedural method was carried out, through a case study of the Zainichi, in addition to a historical-comparative analysis of the origins of instability in the Far East. To understand how the presence of the Zainichi was made possible in Japanese territory the onstructivist theory was used. The central hypothesis of this paper is that these instabilities between Japan's historical-political and diplomatic relations with South and North Korea are causally related to Japan's treatment of the Zainichi and the problems of national identity that generate a division internal group of this group due to political, cultural and national identification between North Korea and South Korea, whilst also resulting in the prejudice that this group faces in Japanese territory.