Question of Korean Ancestry
Hibari Misora's ancestry is a matter of dispute. There are assertions that she was of ethnic Korean ancestry, and that she and her family held Korean passports. Others dispute these claims and following study of her parents' ancestry, assert that Misora's background is not Korean, but Japanese.
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