Why Do All Action Heroes Have Names That Start With the Same Letter? Response to the book upon its translated release and the Apple TV+ series has been muted, although while one article highlights the show’s approach to issues like “comfort women,” the same piece also discusses how a vocal minority on sites like Facebook claim Pachinko is “anti-Japanese.” (A Korean translation was released in 2018, and has recently jumped to the top of South Korea’s bestseller list.) A New York Times interview with Lee-subsuquently translated by Courrier Japan-and an opinion piece from Newsweek Japan recalling the story for an unfamiliar Japanese audience before equating its US success to the universality of the immigrant experience and the discriminatory attitudes faced by immigrants around the world, remain some of the few major outlets to discuss Pachinko in the Japanese language. Meanwhile, the book received only limited coverage in Japan, mostly in reaction to the book’s American sales success prior to its translated release. In reality, what became known by the 1930s as the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere existed mostly as a tool to aid the military and economic strength of Japan through the exploitation of those living on the continent.Īlthough Lee’s novel was a bestseller in the US, no official Japanese translation of the novel existed until a two-part release in July 2020. Under this unequal relationship, defined by military force and political control, propaganda efforts positioned the role of Japanese forces as protective, a necessity for countering Western forces in the region.
After drafting a new constitution inspired by Western models in 1889, the country embarked on its own colonial conquests in East Asia for the purposes of increasing its political and economic strength in the region. Having closed itself off from the rest of the world for over 250 years, Japan underwent a period of rapid modernization following Western ideas beginning with the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Korean identity has, in part, been defined by the adversity faced under Japanese rule.
No wonder Solomon, now understanding his mother’s sacrifice and why she was so determined to stay, changes his mind and implores Geum-ja at the final moment not to sign the contract, a move that costs him his job. Understanding their sacrifices, no wonder Geum-ja has held off on this deal for so long.
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