Among them were Chairman Ho Jong Man, First Vice-Chairman and Director of the Organizational Department Pak Ku Ho and vice-chairpersons and department directors of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee.

They paid high tribute to the portraits of smiling Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, father of socialist Korea, and founder and builder of the powerful DPRK, peerless patriots and benevolent fathers of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan.

On the same day, officials of the Korean Youth League in Japan, the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan, the Union of Korean Teachers and School Clerks in Japan, the Korean Educationists Association in Japan, the Korean Health Workers Association in Japan, the Union of Korean Students in Japan and other central organizations of Chongryon presented bouquets to the portraits and paid tribute to them.