Staff writer
Choi Sun Ae feels she can finally take a step out of her deep despair, and not only because her legal rights are being restored.
"Of course I'm glad that my status as a permanent resident of Japan is being restored," said Choi, 39, a pianist and third-generation Korean resident of Japan. "But what encouraged me most was that there were many Japanese people concerned about the case who made efforts to win my rights back."