Present there were officials in the fields of social science, education, preservation of national heritages and media, teachers, researchers, lecturers and media persons.

Its participants heard papers probing the truth behind the mass killings of Koreans committed by the Japanese imperialists after the quake and denouncing the crafty and shameless moves of the Japanese government to cover up the crimes.

The speakers recalled that the reactionary government of Japan regarded the great quake which occurred in Kanto area in September, 1923 as a good opportunity for killing Koreans and hurled tens of thousands of troops, police and even ultra-right organizations into the operations to mercilessly massacre at least 23 000 innocent Koreans in a little over 10 days after the quake.

They presented photos and documents dating back to those days and written testimonies proving that the shuddering massacres were genocide prompted by extreme chauvinism and state-sponsored crimes committed at the direct instruction of the reactionary government of Japan.

Recalling that Japanese man-slaughters were bent on hunting Koreans in Japan at the instruction of the reactionary government of Japan, they cited the testimonies made by those who witnessed them mercilessly killing Koreans with various lethal weapons including rifles, Japanese swords, bayonets, bamboo spears and clubs in brutal manner which made even brutes blush.

They branded the Japanese imperialists who committed those unprecedentedly brutal massacres as villains and murderers steeped in extreme misanthropy and national chauvinism to the marrow of their bones.