A nongovernmental group will start a counseling service for young “zainichi” Koreans, the ethnic Korean permanent residents in Japan, in need of advice and support amid growing anti-Korean sentiment. The service called Harehoko, to be launched Aug. 1, will be provided by KEY (for ...
The Supreme Court's landmark decision that permanent foreign residents of Japan are not entitled to welfare benefits will discourage municipalities from doling out such aid.
The leader and seven members of a group opposed to hate speech directed against Korean residents of Japan were arrested Wednesday for allegedly assaulting an anti-Korean demonstrator last year. Police said Atsuhiro Soeda, 41, and seven others are suspected of obstructing the demonstrator, verbally ...
The Gunma Prefectural Government wants to take down a monument in the city of Takasaki commemorating Korean forced laborers in wartime Japan, according to a local citizens’ group administering the memorial. The group’s members said they are refusing to comply with the government’s insistent ...
The Osaka High Court upholds a lower court ruling that branded as “discriminatory” demonstrations staged near a pro-Pyongyang Korean school by anti-Korean activists who used hate-speech slogans.
Racist stickers are found at three more restrooms along the 88-temple Shikoku Henro calling on hikers to "protect our precious pilgrimage route from Korean hands."
The U.S. State Department took up hate speech against Korean residents in Japan in its annual human rights report released Thursday, apparently reflecting Washington’s concern about the campaign against the ethnic minority in the country. Members of ultra right-wing groups “used racially pejorative” terms ...
The president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said the company will maintain its stance that wartime compensation issues related to Korean workers forcibly conscripted as laborers have already been settled. “We will continue to maintain our claim is right,” even if South Korea’s Supreme ...
The Kyoto District Court orders anti-Korean activists to pay damages for disrupting a Korean school with hate-speech demonstrations and bans them from staging further rallies.
A memorial service for Korean victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 was held Monday, with the South Korean consul general calling for improved ties between the two countries. More than 20,000 people from what is now South Korea are estimated ...
Calls in the Diet for legislation to curb hate speech targeting foreign residents of Japan are being made even as the issue barely registers on the campaign trail for the July 21 Upper House poll.
