Kawasaki is stepping up security measures near a community center located in one of its largest Korean neighborhoods after the facility received a New Year¡¯s card threatening to ¡°exterminate¡± ethnic Koreans living in Japan.
At the heart of the threat is Fureaikan, a community center established in 1988 by the city in its Sakuramoto district ¡ª home to many ethnic Koreans ¡ª as a hub of cross-cultural communication between Japanese and foreign residents.
Earlier this month, the facility received a New Year¡¯s card with a message ¡ª written in strange, blocky Japanese characters and looking as though they had been drawn with a ruler ¡ª that began with a chilling sentence: ¡°Let Zainichi Koreans be exterminated from the face of the Earth.¡± It then went on to say, ¡°If there is anyone left alive, let them be brutally killed,¡± according to Fureaikan.
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