怪鮮人

• IPA^(key): [ka̠isẽ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑĩɴ]

怪(かい)鮮(せん)人(じん) • (kaisenjin) 

1. (historical, dated, ethnic slur) suspicious Korean person; Korean criminal [c. 1910 to 1945]
   • 2018 [1922], Chung Daekyun, quoting Fukuoka Nichi-nichi Shimbun, “朝鮮人は不幸だったのか [Korean people were unhappy?]”, in Hamada, page 255:

     〈 […] 普(ふ)通(つう)の労(ろう)働(どう)目(め)当(とう)に渡(と)来(らい)した者(もの)ではあるまいとて、同(どう)署(しょ)から原(げん)籍(せき)地(ち)に照(しょう)会(かい)中(ちゅう)である〉（「北(ほく)鮮(せん)から密(みっ)航(こう)の怪(かい)鮮(せん)人(じん)」『福(ふく)岡(おか)日(にち)日(にち)新(しん)聞(ぶん)』一九二二(せんきゅうひゃくにじゅうに)年(ねん)五(ご)月(がつ)二(に)十(じゅう)一(いち)日(にち)夕(ゆう)刊(かん)）

     〈 […] futsū no rōdō metō ni torai shita mono de wa aru mai tote, dōsho kara gensekichi ni shōkai chū de aru〉 (“Hokusen kara mikkō no kaisenjin” “Fukuoka Nichinichi Shinbun” senkyūhyakunijūni-nen gogatsu nijūichi-nichi yūkan)

     “... as he did not arrive in the country for the usual purpose of manual labor, authorities are inquiring at his domicile.” (“Suspicious Korean smuggled in from North”, Fukuoka Nichi-nichi Shimbun 21 May 1922, evening edition)

Used during Japan’s annexation of Korea (1910 to 1945) to describe Korean Imperial subjects living in Japan who were accused or suspected of criminal acts. The word may be less inflammatory than 不(ふ)逞(てい)鮮(せん)人(じん) (futeisenjin, “insubordinate Korean”), as the latter is seen as suggesting that all Korean subjects in Japan were suspicious.

• 不(ふ)逞(てい)鮮(せん)人(じん) (futeisenjin, “insubordinate Korean person; Korean subject opposed to Japanese rule”)
• 鮮(せん)人(じん) (senjin, “Korean person”, dated)
• 朝(ちょう)鮮(せん)人(じん) (chōsenjin, “Korean person”, contemporary)
• 在(ざい)日(にち) (zainichi, “(foreign person) resident in Japan”)