Present there were members of the Liaison Association against the Exclusion of Korean Schools from Tuition-waiver Program for Senior High Schools grouping more than 320 civic and public organizations of Japan, Japanese citizens, thousands of compatriots in the area of Kanto and Korean students.

Kazuo Hasegawa, representative of the liaison association, said in his address that he could not repress resentment at the Japanese government which excluded only the Korean schools from the said program, thus further stirring up human rights abuses, prejudice, discrimination and chauvinism in the Japanese society.

He reiterated his will to carry on the struggle till the program is applied nationwide in protest against the Japanese government which tramples down the right of the students of the Korean schools to learning.

The principal of the Korean Middle and High School in Tokyo, the representative of the society of mothers of the Korean Schools and representatives of students of the Korean Schools said in their speeches that it is natural for Koreans to learn their spoken and written languages and history, calling for preserving the Juche character and the national character in the future, too, in order to protect the national education.

Personages of Japanese organizations also took the floor at the meeting.

The meeting adopted a resolution urging the Japanese government to immediately apply the program to the Korean schools and thus guarantee the students of Korean schools the right to learning.