during the hanshin protests in osaka-kobe, the "zainichi" civil rights movement relied on support from the japan communist party, but with the end of the korean war, ethnic korean activists moved away from an anti-japanese stance and attempted to depoliticize their movement and severe ties with the communist party in japan. not all ethnic koreans aligned with the communist ideology of the movement and a split within the "zainichi" movement occurred when the south korean association in japan ("mindan)" was founded in 1948.