On Mar. 23 an official of the Korean Human Rights Association in Japan called on a person concerned of the United Nations at the hall of members of the House of Representatives in Tokyo and disclosed the injustice of the Japanese government's discrimination policy of excluding the Korean schools from the tuition-free program for senior high schools.

He pointed out that this policy has been shaped against the backdrop of the abnormal relations between the DPRK and Japan and it is based on contempt and hostility toward the Korean nation.

On the same day, managing directors of Korean schools and student representatives of Joson University called on officials of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to ask for their active cooperation in including the Korean schools in the said program.

Contending that support for the Korean schools as well as other foreign schools should be guaranteed by law, they handed over a document signed by over 10,300 persons.

In the meantime the "2010 movement for reconciliation, peace and friendship", which groups six organizations including the "Federation of south Koreans in Japan for Democracy and Unification", the Network of the Solidarity of Japanese and south Korean People and the "Japanese Network: War and Violence against Women", visited the above-said ministry on March 17 to convey the written request addressed to the prime minister and the minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.