But the district has in recent years had a growing population of Korean and Hispanic residents.

By the end of 1988 there were over 2 million South Korean overseas residents.

Japan regards most of its Korean residents as aliens, though many have lived there for generations.

And Japan might find it difficult to keep its Korean residents from sending hard currency home.

For Korean residents who have known no home other than Japan these regulations are considered particularly insulting.

Our community has seen a rapid growth in Korean residents in the last five years, to about 30 percent of our population.

For the first time, the representative of Korean residents in Japan were elected as deputies.

Japan must stop the flow of hard-currency remittances to the dictatorship from its Korean residents.

An interview with a former North Korean resident in the early 1990s revealed that such devices are distributed free at clinics.

Most importantly, the Council and I have insisted on equal protection to our Korean residents.