"These days bands of excitable people are making rackets on the streets, shouting 'Death to Koreans! Koreans, Get Out!," my friend in Tokyo, Akira Ueda, has recently written. "The other day some of these were marching down the conspicuous street of Roppongi where I live, saying unspeakably vulgar things."
"It may be true that an extremely small portion of Korean residents of Japan are doing some outrageous things," my friend continued, "but I'm horrified to imagine how I'd have felt if some group marched, shouting, 'Death to Japanese!,' while I lived in the U.S."
Akira lived in Manhattan for a decade from the mid-1980s to the mid-90s.