Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, starting in 1910 and running most of the century, built around a status that never resolves no matter how long they stay.
Pachinko is the industry open to them because the respectable ones are not, and it works as the central image precisely because it is a rigged game people keep playing.
The generational structure means characters you have followed for two hundred pages die between chapters. That is the point. The discrimination outlasts every individual version of enduring it.
Read June 2019.