Angry protesters took to the streets Sunday in Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo district, home to many Korean shops and restaurants, describing the Korean residents there as “cockroaches” and calling for their immediate “extermination.”
It was only the latest in a series of anti-Korean rallies in the neighborhood that have grown more intense in the past few months.
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