Present there were Koreans in Japan, students and their parents and Japanese people.

Speakers at the meeting accused the Hiroshima Prefectural Office of having suspended the payment of subsidies to the above-said school, timed to coincide with the Japanese government's decision on totally excluding Korean schools in Japan from the application of the tuition-waiver program for senior high schools.

This is obviously an unjust measure, they noted, declaring they would stage dynamic actions to get the issue settled in the future.

A written request to be sent to the governor of Hiroshima Prefecture was read out at the meeting.

On the same day the Korean School in Yamaguchi Prefecture held a press conference at the Yamaguchi Prefectural Office at which it issued a statement titled "We strongly protest against the unjust shelving of subsidies to the Korean School in Yamaguchi Prefecture".