For many older Korean immigrants, buses are a lifeline. Some live in the suburbs and endure long rides with multiple transfers to take classes at senior centers, meet up with friends or go shopping in Koreatown.
This week Japan marks 100 years since the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 105,000 people.In 2009 a government-organised conference issued a report on the earthquake which touched on the killings but avoided except for in one table the word "massacre", Morris-Suzuki said.