The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has ordered a Tokyo-based French school operated by the French government to pay about 100 million yen in taxes as the school is not eligible to receive tax exemptions.
The move comes a week after a French-language teacher and 20 others sued Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara over what they claim were disparaging remarks about the French language.
Following the issuance of an order by the metro government in May 2004, Lycee franco-japonais de Tokyo, based in Chiyoda Ward, had agreed to pay the amount, which was levied as a fixed-asset tax and urban planning tax for the 2000-2004 period, the officials said.