ABSTRACT
Koreans have been in Japan for a long time, arriving primarily in four waves of immigration. In the Asuka Period (538 to 710), a wave of immigrants from the Korean peninsula brought skills and technology that helped the Yamato state consolidate its power in the Kansai area where the ancient capitals of Nara and Kyoto are located (Brown, 1983). In the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth centuries, Korean potters were brought to Japan to make Korean-style cups that had become popular as tea ceremony ware (Hall, 1991). In the early twentieth century, large numbers of Koreans migrated to Japan during the colonial period from 1910–1945, when Japan governed Korea (De Vos & Lee, 1981). In the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, another wave of Koreans migrated to Japan (Douglass & Roberts, 1999).
