Attending the meeting were over 300 people including officials of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and other Koreans and Japanese personages in Fukuoka Prefecture and persons related to the Society for Supporting Korean Schools.

The participants in the meeting watched a video of the rally held in Tokyo on Nov. 2 to call for applying the program to the kindergartens of Korean schools and then heard a keynote report.

They also watched a video showing the life of children at Korean kindergartens before speeches were made by kindergarten teachers.

They condemned the Japanese government for excluding Korean kindergartens from the program and called for fighting against the said outrageous discrimination to the last.

Japanese personages expressed their will to wage a struggle together with Koreans in Japan.

A solidarity message sent by the Committee for Aiding Overseas Compatriots of the DPRK was read out and an appeal adopted there.

The appeal called on all Koreans in Japan to resolutely fight against the Japanese authorities' repeated national discrimination and human rights abuses and to defend the national education.