Yes, I was shocked to see Masayoshi Son's age as 34!
Zainichi Koreans have suffered racism and long period of oppression. They are far removed from Korean culture, it's the fact that Japan doesn't give citizenship to what it considers impure blood yet at the same time, if you are half Japanese, you are eligible. What does this say about Japanese society? There's a deep rooted institutional level of racism. I'm sure those that have lived in Japan will know of this ceiling.
What's remarkable about Masayoshi is that despite the odds being against him, he pulled so far ahead of what an average Japanese could achieve. One of his earliest childhood adversity is some Japanese kid threw a rock at him for being Korean yet with no repercussions for such hate crimes.
Looking at Japan, celebrities and businessman of Korean descent but nowhere are they considered to be Korean in Korea unless they speak the language and appear on Korean variety shows (like Korean-Japanese UFC fighter and Judo master Yoshihiro Akiyama), and they seem to be treated like shit in Japan. It's no surprise that even Yakuza membership have lot of Koreans given the poor level of opportunities available to them in Japan.
What's interesting is how friendly cultures take exceptionalism at face value. Watch how Japanese posts on HN get upvoted.
Okay, so Japanese treat Zainichi like shit. I'm not going to argue that, because it's obvious. But what you're saying here has not been true for decades. There is a path to Japanese citizenship for every Zainichi living in Japan, should they choose to take it, and it is no more or less onerous for them than it is for anyone else.
That is not to say that Zainichi have it easy in Japan today. They do not. But this isn't the first time I've read even on HN, that the Japanese government keeps Zainichi in some sort of permanent nationality limbo, and this is simply not the case. Japan does require renouncing your current citizenship as part of the path to Japanese citizenship, but they are not the only nation to do this, and it is certainly not something they require only of Zainichi.
And in my previous comments on HN i have never ever expressed negative feelings towards Korea or koreans.
I stated facts.
I do despise china for being arrogant, filthy, communist country of thieves who do not respect intellectual properties. Yet I do not consider myself racist as what i have said is proven and it's simply a fact.
I am not japanese and i am well aware of japanese sentiment towards koreans even the ones living in Japan.