Yamagata Prefecture has turned down a request from anti-Korean activists to use a public building for a meeting.
The prefectural government said it "made the decision from a comprehensive standpoint based on administrative requirements for the facility and (the group) was not turned down because of its ideas or creed."
The Zainichi Tokken wo Yurusanai Shimin no Kai (roughly translated as the Society of Citizens against Granting Privileges to Koreans in Japan) tried on June 2 to reserve space for a June 30 meeting but was turned away by the reluctant administrators of the building, the group said.