OSAKA – Pro-North Korean Chosen High School in Osaka will set a precedent in Japanese rugby when it plays in the national high school championship tournament due to open on Saturday.
It will be the first ethnic high school in the country to be in the championship round since the door was opened in 1994 to so-called “miscellaneous” schools that do not fall under the definition of schools as set forth in the School Education Law.
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