Participating in the meeting were Japanese political and social personages including representatives of the organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people and social organizations from across Japan. Nam Sung U, vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, was present there on invitation.

Sumiko Shimizu, representative of the Japanese Women's Society for Solidarity with the Korean Women, and other personages made speeches.

A message from the Korean Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries was read out at the meeting.

A letter of request to the Japanese prime minister was adopted there.

It said that though a decade has passed since the Japan-DPRK Pyongyang Declaration was made public, the Japanese government has persistently pursued one-sided policy imposing sanctions on the DPRK.

The government excluded Korean schools in Japan from tuition-waiver program and continued to foster antipathy against Koreans in Japan among Japanese people, it said, and went on:

Now is the time to make a decision for opening a new history in the spirit of the Japan-DPRK Pyongyang Declaration. The Japanese government should reaffirm the spirit of the declaration and express the stand for normalization of the Japan-DPRK relations and actively come out for the inter-governmental talks.

The government should immediately lift the sanctions against the DPRK and take concrete measures for the A-bomb victims and those who fell victim to the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army and forced drafting, and apply the tuition-waiver program to the Korean schools without delay.