FEATURE: Short film celebrates grassroots resistance to discrimination

A short film released on YouTube about a group of mothers near Tokyo selling handmade kimchi to support a cash-strapped ethnic Korean school offers an intimate look at how grassroots efforts to resist discrimination can expand outward to help create a more tolerant society.The 15-minute film, called "Saitama Kimchi Diary," sees cultural anthropologist Kohei Inose, 42, join the women on a day in March, following them from the arrival of the vegetables for pickling to the post-event cleanup and chat in Saitama Prefecture's Saitama City.The women have been selling the traditional Korean dish e…READ FULL ARTICLE