Lee Dong-sik: Japanese people who became friends

There is a country that is really close to the Earth but far away. South Korea and Japan. The gap between the two nations is growing even after 70 years of liberation. What's the cause? We have to face each other and hold hands, but we have problems with both of us in Japan, so we don't face them face-to-face. We have invaded us and brought so much pain that we cannot completely erase our resentment of not truly being guilty. I know you've caused Korea pain, but how long can you tell the Japanese to apologize and the people who are turning against each other? But there was a bridge between the seemingly impassable straits. There were Japanese who had forced our country into a union and had been our friends in history for over 30 years, with many people dying and injured and sleeping. They tried to understand and love us who were persecuted and not side with the invaders, and to learn the culture, the arts, the folk, the ways of life that we had, and they tried to protect them. They showed me, in the dark of Japanese rule, that Japanese can be friends when they are faced with a time of resentment. There were many of them in many ways. We didn't see them. I didn't even realize that among the Japanese, there was a friend. If we knew that there are good Japanese, grateful Japanese, we could open our hearts a little bit and we could look to the future with a more calm eye. The Japanese were not aware of them.

Korean title: 친구가 된 일본인들

Korean author: 이동식

Korean publisher: 나눔사

ISBN-13: 9788970273129