
TokyoNow: Hanshin quake united people, but not necessarily foreigners
KOBE, Jan. 14, Kyodo--
....Koh Yong Hong was one of a group of second- and third-generation South Korean youths who coordinated efforts to locate their compatriots scattered around in various evacuation facilities in Kobe.
One day after the quake, which struck on Jan. 17, Koh happened to see his next-door neighbor outside his parents' house in Nagata Ward and made a slight bow as usual. The neighbor then asked him, ''Can we trust you guys?''
The remarks made him think about the 1923 slaughter of thousands of Koreans and Chinese by the Japanese army and vigilante groups following the Great Kanto Earthquake in the Tokyo area....more...