The story Masaji tells is not one for the faint of heart. Masaji was born in Japan, shortly after World War II. His father was Korean, his mother was Japanese. That simple fact stacked the odds against his family from day one. The Koreans in Japan after the war “…belonged to neither the winning nor the losing side, and they had no place to go.” In Japan, his family constantly battled poverty and discrimination. When his father was approached to move to North Korea with the promise of a ...
