ABSTRACT
The epilogue offers an ethnographical revisiting with three generations of women in Osaka's Korea Town. It is a tribute to the memory of a first-generation woman who displayed strength and autonomy, never wanting to be a burden to anyone and even selecting herself the dress she would wear in death. She left her homeland of Cheju Island as a young girl and lived almost eighty years in a small neighborhood in Osaka, working, raising her children single-handedly, and fervently supporting her chosen political organization and her ethnic community. A second-generation Zainichi who was like a surrogate daughter to her watched and learned from the aging first-generation woman, emulating her passion and strength with the dream of continuing the first generation's legacy. That younger woman's daughter, a member of the third generation, carries on both women's history and legacy as she actively works to preserve the ethnic community in her own way and hopes to pass it on to her own children. In a time of rampant hate speech against Koreans in Japan, continuing political tension between Japan and North Korea, and ongoing discrimination against Zainichi Koreans, she attempts to find meaning in the voices of the previous generation.
