The League of Koreans in Japan (Japanese: 在日本朝鮮人連盟, Korean: 재일조선인련맹/재일조선인연맹), abbreviated as Chōren (朝連), was an organization for Zainichi Koreans that...

immigrants, due to many Koreans assimilating into the general Japanese population. The majority of Koreans in Japan are Zainichi Koreans (在日韓国・朝鮮人, Zainichi...

The United Koreans in Japan official football team represents the Korean population living in Japan. The team includes players holding passports from North...

one of two main organisations for Zainichi Koreans (Korean citizens or residents of Japan), the other being Mindan. It has close ties to North Korea and...

speak Japanese and take Japanese names. However, Koreans resisted this and by the end of the 1940s, it was almost completely undone. Ethnic Koreans in Japan...

Koreans sponsored by ethnic activist organisation and de facto North Korean embassy Chongryon. Chongryon received the tacit support of the Japanese and...

ethnic groups in the country include the indigenous Ainu and Ryukyuan people. Zainichi Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Brazilians mostly of Japanese descent,...

end of the Pacific War, he led the formation of the Korean Association in the Kantō region and oversaw the formation of the League of Koreans in Japan (Chōren)...

needs of the Korean minority that remained in Japan. The movement to create Korean schools was created by Chōren ("League of Koreans in Japan"), an organization...

more associated with right-leaning Koreans over time. Koreans who arrived in Japan before 1945 (called "Zainichi Koreans") and their descendents have commemorated...

ethnic Koreans were killed and persecuted in Yanbian. Korean (Joseon) migration into Northeast China began in significant numbers in the last quarter of the...

between the clubs of Nadeshiko League (Japan Women's Football League division 1) winners and WK-League (Korea Republic Women's Football League) winners. The...

As of 2008, the 60,000 ethnic Koreans in Greater Los Angeles constituted the largest Korean community in the United States. Their number made up 15 percent...

The KBO League (Korean: KBO 리그) is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea. The KBO League was founded with six franchises in 1982 and is...

spellings Corea and Korea in 19th-century publications, some Koreans believe that Imperial Japan, around the time of the Japanese occupation, intentionally...

confused with Korea University in Seoul). As of 2014, there were about 150,000 Zainichi Koreans affiliated with the Chongryon in Japan, and they form...

The Japan–South Korea football rivalry is a rivalry between the Japan national football team and South Korea national football team, and is one of the...

The Korean Basketball League (Korean: 한국프로농구) or simply KBL is a professional men's basketball league in South Korea which was established in 1997. The...

Korean refugees against the Japanese military, which had also occupied parts of China. The Nationalist-backed Koreans, led by Yi Pom-Sok, fought in the...

government of the whole of Korea. For this reason, the people do not consider themselves as 'North Koreans' but as Koreans in the same divided country...

the South Koreans' eschewal of their state flag for this of all symbols — and at this of all events. 봉기(鳳旗) (in Korean). War Memorial of Korea. Archived...

the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan. Concessions...

July 1966). "North Koreans profit by Italy's misfortune". The Guardian. p. 15. "When Middlesbrough hosted the 1966 World Cup Koreans". BBC. 15 June 2010...

purposes of Elo ratings was a friendly against the Philippines in June 1940. While Korea was under Japanese rule, multiple Koreans played in international...

highest level of baseball in Japan is Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), which consists of two leagues, the Central League and the Pacific League, with six...

founded in 1961 as Zainichi Chosen Football Club. Initially it maintained links with Chongryon, the pro-North Korea organization of Koreans in Japan, and...

trusteeship until the Koreans would be deemed ready for self-rule. In the last days of the war, the United States proposed dividing the Korean peninsula into...

baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning simply Professional Baseball; outside of Japan...

of the Japan Professional Football League (日本プロサッカーリーグ, Nihon Puro Sakkā Rīgu) system. Founded in 1992, it is one of the most successful leagues in Asian...

history of forced laborers in Japan, including Koreans during the period of Japanese annexation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. As with investigations of Nazi...