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I am Shin Su Gok, a sansei Korean in Japan.
I like Kenji Utsunomiya very much.
I have no right to vote for the election.
Even without a vote, I came here to cheer him up.
If he fails to be elected as Governor of Tokyo...
I believe there is no future for us, no future for you and me.
Here, Shibuya is where I was born.
I was born at Shibuya District, in Tokyo.
My mother as well.
And I have wandered this city all along.
I went to Daiichi Shogyo High School back there, run by the city.
That's right. You can walk to there in no time.
Why did I go to the school?
I was told I could get a job even as a Korean after graduating a high school of commerce.
I studied so hard in my first year.
I learned bookkeeping.
Now we use calculators, back then used Soroban. I learned it too.
But there was no one who got a job among us, Koreans in Japan.
So I quit the school.
I wandered about in the town.
I thought being poor was tough.
It was very very hard for me to pay off 900 yen tuition for the school.
I worked at a steak house at night...
I was off an on to the school in the daytime...
I was a paper delivery girl in the morning...
collecting tin cans and beer bottles...
Each one made me 5 yen. I managed to live along with the payment.
I went to a bakery over there, wondering what I could get with such small money.
Being poor is very hard.
And this country forces the youth to live like us as being poor.
We have no future. We have no job.
The other day...
the man who put pesticide on frozen food...
has an annual income of only two million yen.
After deductions, it is about 160,000 per month.
It is very hard to live on such amount of money.
Much less about at age of 50, as a temp worker. What made such world is...
the current government...
and the governments so far...
and it is Governors of Tokyo who have looked away from the fact and encouraged the conflict.
The "Sangokujin" remark by the Governor, Shintaro Ishihara in 2000...
I spoke up against it.
Governor Ishihara back then said, "When an aftermath of an earthquake, Sangokujins..."
"will cause a riot. So, I will ask the Self-Defence Forces to come."
That is, the Koreans would do harm, so kill them, he said.
I said no to it.
I live in here.
I live in here with the Japanese, people with Japanese nationality.
Fathers of Japanese nationality, mothers of Korean, and diverse children live in this city.
Tokyo is a city of high torelance.
The city has raised me as I am now.
Now the city is acceleratingly collapsing.
Look at us. The city has made you and me to fight against each other all along.
We should not. You live, I live, you and I both do not want to be poor.
You and I want to live on meals together.
We want to get a job after high school.
We want to get money enough to live our lives when we work so hard.
But I have no future no matter how hard we work.
"Why did you become a company president?" many people ask me.
I have run my company for 30 years.
Why? Because I could not get a job.
I could not get a job, so I became a company president.
If I... If there had been much less discrimination in Tokyo...
If I had not been born as a woman... not as a Korean...
would there be another different life for me, I wonder.
But here in this city, I was born as a Korean, sansei Korean in Japan...
and I was born and raised in this city.
Now the city has become a mecca of hate crimes, and of racism.
Words like "Kill Koreans, both of good and bad"...
are spreading over Tokyo every and each week.
I became a target to kill.
But this is my hometown.
Though I am told to leave, this is my home...
this is where I live... this is where I eat...
this is where I fall in love... and this is where I live my life now.
To support me as such together...
I launched a group called Norikoe-Net, against racism.
The reason why to launch is...
because together with us... this country, this land, this Shibuya, this Shinjuku...
shall not be places of racists, claimed so many friends.
I wanted to be their follower.
And back then, I asked...
"Utsunomiya-san, will you work at Norikoe-Net together?"
He said yes without any hesitation.
Has there been anyone so far who raised one's voice for a person whose vote means nothing?
There have been many who like human rights, but do not like the people of concern.
With politics full of fraud and lies...
you and I live together within 300 meter radius...
who actually made this idea to happen is standing next to me...
Utsunomiya-san!
I like Kenji Utsunomiya very much!
Even without a vote, I will cheer him up!
Thank you in advance, everyone!
And let's live together!
Well then, I will pass the baton.