Second- and third-generation Korean resident of Japan
在日韓国人2世・3世
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Most of the ethnic Korean permanent residents of Japan, from both the South and the North, are those who came between 1910, when Japan annexed Korea as a colony, and the end of World War II (1945) and their children and grandchildren. During World War II, many Koreans were forcibly brought to work in Japan. Accurate figures of the number of ethnic Koreans residing in Japan are not known, it is believed that about 650,000 Koreans, including those who remained in Japan at the war's end, their children, and grandchildren, currently hold North or South Korean citizenship. The majority of these are second- and third-generation Koreans born in Japan. Including those who have taken Japanese citizenship and those born between a Japanese and Korean parent, it is believed that there are about 2 million people of Korean heritage in Japan today.
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