It was attended by Koreans in Japan and personages of Japanese organizations of Japan-Korea friendship and solidarity, trade unions, civic and peace movement organizations and citizens.

Terumi Terao, co-representative of the Central Headquarters of the Japanese Side to the Fact-Finding Group for the Probe into the Truth about the Forcible Drafting of Koreans, made a speech at the meeting.

He said that human rights abuses against Koreans are getting serious in Japan as the days go by, adding that if Koreans in Japan are to be guaranteed human rights, the Japanese government should settle its past crimes and opt for the normalization of the relations with the DPRK as early as possible in the spirit of the Japan-DPRK Pyongyang Declaration.

Then the floor was taken by a representative of the Kanagawa Prefectural Society of Mothers of Korean Schools.

She branded the attempt of the Japanese authorities to exclude the Korean schools only from the tuition aid program for senior high schools as an intolerable human rights abuse as it fosters the national discrimination and an act of depriving Korean children in Japan of the right to learning.

Koichi Ishizaka, associate professor at Rikkyo University, made a report at the meeting.

He pointed out that the Japanese prime minister did not mention any apology and reparation for the past crimes committed during Japan's colonial rule over Korea in his statement released on the occasion of the lapse of a century since the fabrication of the "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty".

For the normalization of the Japan-DPRK relations the Japanese government should, to begin with, take sincere approach towards making apology and reparation for the past crimes.

An appeal was adopted at the meeting.