ABSTRACT
Nestled along Osaka Bay about two thirds of the way – moving west-southwest – down the main Japanese island of Honsh, Osaka is Japan’s third largest city. Among its 2.6 million inhabitants are some 110,000 resident Koreans. This may seem a small number when compared to minority groups in many other multi-ethnic cities around the world, but it represents the largest non-Japanese ethnic group in any municipality in Japan. Over a third of these resident Koreans – some 38,000 – are concentrated in one of Osaka’s twenty-four wards (ku) and comprise about a quarter of the ward’s population.
