The exclusion of the Korean schools only from the tuition-waiver program for senior high schools is a blatant discriminating action, they noted, demanding that the program be applied to the Korean schools, too, as is the case with other foreign schools in Japan.

The Korean schools are the institutions which instill the soul of the Korean nation into Korean schoolchildren in Japan and the Japanese government should not trample down upon their future, they held.

On the same day, Pak Chang Gil, permanent adviser to the Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, and others concerned of the Korean schools in Tokyo and Nishi Tokyo also visited the above-said ministry to demand the inclusion of the Korean schools in the tuition-waiver program.

They handed a paper of more than 23,400 signatures to the ministry and read out a written request in the joint name of the Educational Society and the Patrons' Society for Tokyo Korean Senior High School and the Liaison Council of Mothers Society of Tokyo Korean School and written requests from the Patrons' Society in the area of Nishi Tokyo.