North Korean residents of Japan protest in the streets of Tokyo (Video)

Over the weekend, about 3,000 North Korean residents of Japan held a protest in Tokyo over the “abuse” they are facing at the hands of the Japanese government:

Thousands of North Koreans took to the streets in Japan Saturday to protest alleged human rights abuses from authorities there who are suspicious of their connections to Pyongyang.

Protesters gathered at a park in Tokyo today in front of posters of Kim Jong-il and marched in the streets protected by police. Protesters allege that they are being unfairly targeted by authorities and harassed.

But why bother with a bland article when you can actually see the protest for yourself? Here are some videos that were shot at the protest:

Video 1:

Video 2:

FNN News report on the protests:

Of course, our patriot friends in black trucks were on hand as well. One van in this video has a sign saying “Takeshima is Japanese territory” written on its side:

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Isn’t these people with black vans uyoku, right-wing political organization supported by Korean Yakuza? Then why they say Takeshima is Japanese?

http://www.japanprobe.com James

Not all uyoku have links to Korean yakuza. Also, if you subscribe to the uyoku-are-Korean-agents theory, you could claim that their black trucks are declaring Takeshima to be Japanese purely out of a desire to make the Japanese look crazy and ultra-nationalistic. One could even argue that their trucks could turn off passerbys and make them care even less about Takeshima belonging to Japan…

http://www.transpacificradio.com Alex

I’m fairly surprised actually that there wasn’t a larger uyoku presence. Any remember that incident with the Russian embassy last year? And here we have actual North Koreans walking in the street and all they could send was one lousy van? I’m almost disappointed…

Though I bet the other vans are in Shibuya somewhere making a racket as usual.
http://www.occidentalism.org Matt

Nice find, James.
http://www.occidentalism.org Matt

By the way, what are they really protesting about? They claim to be protesting human rights violations, but as far as I can see it is just the police conducting a long overdue investigation into the illegal activities of Soren.
Overthinker

The uyoku really should get better sound systems if they want to get their message across. Instead of this garbled, noise-filled system they always use. But then that presupposes they want to get any actual message across rather than just shout loudly for the sake of shouting loudly….
shadkt

“By the way, what are they really protesting about? ”

I believe it’s all about money, at the bottom of it all.
Chousen Souren, the political arm of N.Korea in Japan, are obviously none too happy about the recent arrests made in regards to tax evasions and other illegal activities of their members. If the authorities start to get serious in cracking down tax evasions in the pachinko industry, it will greatly hurt the cash flowing from Japan to N.Korea via the N.Korea residents.

What they don’t understand is that the atmosphere has changed in Japan.
Your everyday normal Japanese citizens have more knowledge than what they had only few years ago, and if sympathy and pressure to the government were what the Souren were after, they should be greatly disappointed.
Zaciroth

……..last time I checked I would rather live in Japan being slightly governmentally abused now and then than to live in NORTH KOREA. I mean are they stupid or what? I know you can have some pride in your home country and all. And that is good in the right sense..but come on…..
Anne

Yes, but they deserve equal rights in Japan.
If you were being treated unequally wouldn’t you be protesting your rights as well?
Isn’t that a basic human right?

The Japanese and Koreans need to wake up.
They are so similar to each other.. and are being equally immature although this site is more biased towards the Koreans considering it’s Japan-probe.
I See so many stupid videos both the Japanese and Koreans make against each other.. I think anti-japan/ anti korea issues are actually made worse by the non Japanese and non Koreans who constantly keep bringing it up.
There’s a lot of positive but it’s never reported.

Anyhow I like Japan and Korea
Hope they work things out

North Korean residents of Japan protest in the streets of Tokyo (Video)

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