〜米紙 TIME より〜 www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,108848,00.html Joji Obara was born in 1952 to an impoverished Korean family in postwar Osaka. His father had been a scrap collector, then a taxi driver who worked his way into owning a fleet of cars and a string of pachinko parlors from which he amassed a fortune. Perhaps mindful of the discrimination faced by Koreans, when the young Obara -then known by his Korean name Kim- was asked to pen a farewell sentiment in his junior-high class yearbook, he wrote: "Upbringing is more important than family name."
