Notorious hate-speech demonstrations outside a Kyoto school run by pro-Pyongyang Koreans have prompted a group of lawyers and others to set about trying to ease the distrust the pupils may feel toward Japanese society.

They are distributing illustrated booklets that explain in pictures and clear language a July 2014 high court ruling which penalized the anti-Korean activists responsible.

The Osaka High Court upheld a lower court ruling that had branded as "discriminatory" demonstrations staged near the school by the Zaitokukai group and ordered them to pay ¥12 million in damages to the school's operator.