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Korean guide on racist slurs

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, shows Choi Sang Hee of South Korea, the first non-Japanese woman to qualify as a guide for an 88-temple pilgrimage course on western Japan's Shikoku Island. In a phone interview on the night of April 10, 2014, regarding the recent posting of racist signs possibly targeting her trail marker stickers on the pilgrimage routes, Choi said she is perplexed by the issue but still loves the Japanese people.

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Maruti Suzuki plant where 1 killed, 90 injured in rampage

GURGAON, India - Photo taken July 19, 2012, shows the site at the Indian-Japanese carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.'s car factory in Manesar in India's northern state of Haryana, where workers rioted and set fire to plant equipment the previous day, killing one employee and injuring around 90 others. The labor rampage was apparently triggered by discriminatory slurs against an Indian worker.

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Maruti Suzuki plant where 1 killed, 90 injured in rampage

GURGAON, India - Photo taken July 19, 2012, shows the entrance of the Indian-Japanese carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.'s car factory in Manesar in India's northern state of Haryana. Workers at the plant rioted and set fire to plant equipment the previous day, killing one employee and injuring around 90 others in a labor rampage apparently triggered by discriminatory slurs against an Indian worker.

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Okinawa Gov. Onaga at press conference

At a press conference on Oct. 20, 2016, in Naha, Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga expresses his displeasure at the stance of Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui, who said he appreciated the work of two Osaka riot police officers who were dispatched to Okinawa to help local police respond to anti-base protests. The two officers hurled ethnic slurs at protesters, but Matsui said they had worked hard, although their choice of words was inadequate. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo