Min Jin Lee’s novel took years to be translated, and a vocal minority still calls it anti-Japanese.
baselessly accused of looting in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, are recounted through flashbacks. But the Apple TV+ version of the story is primarily seen through the eyes of Solomon, a third-generation Korean living in Japan.
Korean identity has, in part, been defined by the adversity faced under Japanese rule. Having closed itself off from the rest of the world for over 250 years , Japan underwent a period of rapid modernization following Western ideas beginning with the Meiji Restoration in 1868. After drafting a new constitution inspired by Western models in 1889, the country embarked on its own colonial conquests in East Asia for the purposes of increasing its political and economic strength in the region.
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