Japanese actress upsets Koreans with Hashima Island photos

Kiko Mizuhara on Hashima Island, Japan / Courtesy of Instagram

Japanese actress Kiko Mizuhara has angered Korean netizens with photos of herself on Hashima Island, where Koreans were slave laborers under Japanese colonial rule (1910~1945).

Posted on her Instagram webpage in early August, the photos show the actress and her co-stars in the fantasy action movie “Attack on Titan,” now showing in the U.S. and Japan. A press conference for the movie was held on the island.

Koreans claimed the actress has ignored what happened on the island during during the colonial period. The Hashima Island is one of the seven

Meiji-era industrial sites where Koreans were brought against their will and forced to work during the colonial era.

Kiko Mizuhara, second from left, with co-stars of “Attack on Titan”

The island was in the public eye on Saturday, when it featured on the TV entertainment show, “Infinite Challenge. Comedians Yoo Jae-seok and Ha Dong-hun (better known as HaHa) visited the island, and were seen bowing and paying tearful respects to the spirits of Koreans who died there.

Mizuhara has frequently been in headline news in Korea for her relationship to singer G-Dragon from the idol boy band BigBang. She made headlines last week for reportedly splitting with the singer.