The entrance of a restaurant in a hotel in the port city of Wonsan in North Korea. There are only four Japanese wives left alive in this city. During a repatriation project organized by the Red Cross between 1959 and 1984, about 93,000 Koreans moved to North Korea from Japan. About 1,800 of them were Japanese women who married Korean men in Japan and moved to North Korea. Most of them have never been able to return to Japan.

Photo by Noriko Hayashi, Wonsan (North Korea)

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Ulaz u hotelski restoran u sjevernokorejskom lučkom gradu Wonsanu u kojem su ostale samo četiri “japanskle supruge”. Tokom projekta repatrijacije koji je organizovao Crveni krst između 1959. i 1984. godine, oko 93.000 Korejaca se preselilo iz Japana u Sjevernu Koreju. Od njih, oko 1.800 su bile japanske žene koje su se udale za korejske muževe u Japanu i sa njima se preselile u Sjevernu Koreju. Većina njih se nikada nije vratila u Japan.

Foto: Noriko Hayashi, Wonsan (Sjeverna Koreja)