Quote Originally Posted by Tim33
Many famous people in Japan are Zainichi(half Korean) without the japanese knowing it.
Beat takeshi for example. I know when telling quite a few japanese people about it they were shocked.
Zainichi means a korean resident in Japan. I don't know if there is a word for half-korean in Japanese.
Takeshi Kitano is Japanese. Born in January 18, 1947, in Tokyo, Takeshi Kitano was the youngest of four children of Kikujiro and Saki Kitano.
http://www.hkfilms.150m.com/Japanese...eshikitano.htm