미소라 히바리(한국인)- Misora Hibari singing "인생외길" written by her Korean brother

[Springscolo]

I think she is japanese because she was born and lived in Japan for his whole life as Japanese with Japan language. There is no meaning to tell and make problem about her nationality because she didn't tell anything about Korea.

She was a just wonderful singer in Japan. I love her songs.

[ShariS707]

Who gives a flying f@#* what nationality she was??!! If she claimed to be japanese and lived as japanese then shes japanese! I love her and her music! I am half japanese myself but to me it doesnt matter where she came from, whether shes japanese or korean wont ever change the fact thats she was a remarkable artist and left this world way too soon! Misora San YOU ARE MISSED!!!

[balder1981]

As french, I definitely cannot understand that debate on "blood" or racial "legacy". To me Misora Hibari belongs to the people she choose. I know it is hard to understand for some people but she might be black, white or arabic to me she live and die as a japanese so she do is japanese

[cocktailget1]

not korean

she is jap

[redwhitedude]

Great singer. Too bad she died early. I'm pretty sure she is japanese.

[KYUNGILNAM]

@MisoraHaebaragi Thank you so much about "objective facts."

[KYUNGILNAM]

@MisoraHaebaragi but whatever case, if the father was a korean, it is a shocking information to me!!!!!

[KYUNGILNAM]

@MisoraHaebaragi "According to wikipedia, Misora was born Kazue Katō (加藤 和枝, Katō Kazue?) in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Japan. Her father was Masukichi Katō (加藤 増吉, Katō Masukichi?), a fishmonger, and her mother Kimie Katō (加藤 喜美枝, Katō Kimie?), a housewife. Misora displayed musical talent from an early age after singing for her father at a World War II send-off party in 1943."

[northleaves]

팔방미인 !

[Ferreal92]

JUST ENJOY THE MUSIC

[banditto4]

I thought all Japanese were originally from Korea...? Living in Hawaii they look very similar and sometimes I strain to wonder if speaking their native tongue are they Korean or Japanese?

[snowplum22]

@banditto4 WHAT? Koreans are from China, Japan is Japan, 

[redwhitedude]

@snowplum22 Koreans are not from China. 

[snowplum22]

@redwhitedude i heard from my Korean freinds said that it's true that they were Chinese who settled on the Korean peninsula and thats why they used before chinese signs before hangul which was made by emperor, and also they Korean surname Lee is from China.

[nuderobot]

@snowplum22 Well, whoever told you that didn't know what the heck they were talking about. Koreans and Chinese know they are different, and no one person created Chinese writing! LOL As for family names, they probably go back to a time when there were no such countries as China or Korea, and anyway boundaries have changed many times over the centuries. Just because a name exists in both countries today, it doesn't necessarily mean one came 'from' the other.

[KYUNGILNAM]

@snowplum22 probably your koeans friends are not so well-educated or knowledgeable

[KYUNGILNAM]

@snowplum22 most of koreans came from mongolian area, not from china.

[zurich862000]

It would've been more beautiful if that really sad looking guy wasn't there.

[vivaso80]

is it really important whether or she was Korean? She was a great singer and gave us great time to enjoy her singing. Isn't it enough?

[Goldenbell001]

@MisoraHaebaragi

Thank you for wonderful songs and updates. I feel the same pains of biases and prejudices that keeps other ethnic groups from main stream make up. We as people must overcome both personal and overall ignorances of other cultures. We must also embrace what seem to be differences in idea and ideals. Unless we can live to withhold the principal of knowldege in diversity, mankind is less likely to live in harmony but only greed and selfish interests will prevail.

[HeroLMH]

I loved this song even though I dont understand japanese that much ,, she was beautiful ..

[MISORAisKOREAN]

@HeroLMH Watch this video: 미소라 히바리(한국인) 돌아와요 부산항에(Come back to Busan Harbor) . You may like it even better. She is singing a Korean song.

[daeyamang]

I just checked it ~ she seems to be Korean.

It really doesn't matter if she is Korean or not.

But if she is, you should accept her as she is.

She is a good singer ~ thats all it matters.

[kuninohana]

misorai is japanese not korean,!!

[Goldenbell001]

Nice song

[Goldenbell001]

Intresting, just beginning to get exposed to a bit of Japanese culture with vast silimarity to Korean without will to acceptance.

[ferrazito]

She was born to make people happy, and she is still making it

[yiishuian]

''Shukan Bunshu'' concluded that she was not Korean. [7] Ohshita Eiji, a Hibari Misora expert, has investigated the ancestry of the parents of Hibari as well, and concluded that they were not Korean.

[yiishuian]

On July 9, 1989, a weekly magazine in South Korea wrote that Hibari Misora was Korean. ''Shukan Bunshu'', a weekly magazine in Japan wrote that it investigated this claim in detail on August 10, 1989.

[MisoraHaebaragi]

Three books that says that Misora Hibari was Korean:

1. Racist Victimization by John Winterdyk

2. Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan by Michael Weiner

3. Multiethnic Japan by John Lie