The Hiroshima District Court rejected Wednesday a petition calling for the reversal of a government decision to exclude a Korean school from its tuition-free high school education program. The plaintiffs — the operator of Hiroshima Korean School, based in the city of Hiroshima, and 109 ...
As tensions between Tokyo and Pyongyang mount, prefectures begin cutting funding to North Korean-run schools in Japan under a new ministry directive.
A North Korean organization on Monday rebuked a Japanese court's recent rejection of a lawsuit seeking nullification of a decision by local authorities not to pay subsidies to 10 Korean schools in Osaka Prefecture. The Korean Committee for Aiding Overseas Compatriots said in a statement ...
A district court rejected Thursday a lawsuit filed by the operator of 10 Korean schools in Osaka Prefecture seeking nullification of a decision by local authorities not to pay subsidies. Based on a 2010 proposal from then-Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto, the schools were told to ...
Amid heightened tensions, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is looking for ways to escalate unilateral sanctions against the hermit state.
More than 20 people have been added to a list of people banned from re-entering the country after visiting North Korea, taking the total to a record 45, sources close to the matter said Saturday. The government has forbidden in principle the re-entry of foreign ...
Sanctions over Pyongyang's recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests have resulted in Tokyo banning 22 people from re-entering Japan after visiting North Korea, sources said Sunday. Measures approved last month by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government ban the re-entry of senior officials of a pro-Pyongyang ...
North Korea's decision to launch what it claimed was a rocket Sunday despite international calls for restraint has raised tensions with Japan and sparked angry calls from around the nation. Protesters opposed to what was widely viewed as a ballistic missile test gathered at the ...
The son of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan chief has been handed a suspended prison term for illegally importing mushrooms from North Korea. Ho Jong Do, 50, was sentenced in the Kyoto District Court on Thursday to one year and eight ...
Police searched an office building Sunday in Hokkaido belonging to the pro-Pyongyang group Chongryon on suspicion that its affiliate companies swindled the government out of subsidies given to businesses for hiring unemployed job seekers. Investigators said several companies in Sapporo with links to Chongryon, or ...
One of two men linked to the pro-Pyongyang group Chongryon have pleaded not guilty to illegally importing mushrooms from North Korea. Ho Jong Do, a son of Ho Jong Man, who heads the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), said the charges were ...
A succession fight is brewing in Chongyron, but however it turns out, the organization's influence in Pyongyang is disappering.
