A high court Thursday scrapped a lower court ruling and decided a Korean school in Osaka is not eligible for the government's school tuition subsidies.
The Osaka Korean High School, which teaches in Korean and provides a Korean-style education, had earlier sought to annul the government's decision to exclude it from the tuition-free high school education program.
In handing down the ruling, the Osaka High Court's Presiding Judge Yuzuru Takahashi said the government's decision was legitimate, citing the school's links to the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan including financial assistance and the school's choice of textbooks, whose contents admire North Korea's past and present leaders.