{"id":46520,"date":"2022-07-18T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/18\/utoro-is-my-identity-can-a-museum-heal-the-scars-of-korean-migrants-in-japan"},"modified":"2022-07-18T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:14:48","slug":"utoro-is-my-identity-can-a-museum-heal-the-scars-of-korean-migrants-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46520","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Utoro is my identity\u2019: can a museum heal the scars of Korean migrants in Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new museum aims to reconcile a neighbourhood near Kyoto wracked by racism and inflamed by the legacy of war<\/p>\n<p>The greeting at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoro.jp\/en\/about_en\">Utoro Peace Memorial Museum<\/a> is impossible to miss. Emblazoned on a huge banner hanging on a wall, it says: \u201cThis is where we live. This is where we meet.\u201d The message is simple, but there was a time when Utoro, a small neighbourhood near Kyoto in western Japan, was wracked by racism and division, inflamed by the legacy of war and colonialism.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is proof that two apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/29\/we-have-to-get-along-japan-korean-residents-at-sharp-end-of-diplomatic-row\">irreconcilable communities<\/a> \u2013 Japanese and ethnic Koreans \u2013 can come together to confront, and heal, the scars of history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/18\/utoro-is-my-identity-can-a-museum-heal-the-scars-of-korean-migrants-in-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new museum aims to reconcile a neighbourhood near Kyoto wracked by racism and inflamed by the legacy of warThe greeting at the Utoro Peace Memorial Museum is impossible to miss. Emblazoned on a huge banner hanging on a wall, it says: \u201cThis is where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46521,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46520\/revisions\/46521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}