Her bony, 80-year-old body floating around inside a nylon shirt and cigarette permanently clamped between what appear to be her two remaining front teeth, Kan Kyon Nam is an unlikely illegal squatter.
But frail or not, if the bulldozers come she wants it known there'll be trouble. "If they try to evict me and demolish my house, I'll die under it," she says. "There's no point in trying to stay alive at my age."
Fighting talk comes easy to the older residents of Utoro, a tiny Korean village of rickety houses in Uji City, Kyoto, which has been struggling to avoid being wiped from the map for over half a century.
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