Japan's top court dismisses damages over exclusion of pro-North Korea schools from tuition waiver
The Supreme Court has dismissed a damages claim filed over the government's decision to exclude pro-Pyongyang Korean schools from its tuition-free program for high schools, upholding lower court rulings that found the policy lawful. The top court's Third Petty Bench, presided over by Justice Toshimitsu ...
Japan to keep North Korea-linked association Chongryon under surveillance
The government said Friday that the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, remains subject to surveillance under the Subversive Activities Prevention Law. The government "can't deny the possibility that the association will conduct destructive activities depending on future circumstances," it said ...
Malicious descriptions about North and South Korean groups temporarily displayed on Google Maps
Malicious descriptions, such as one targeting the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, were displayed temporarily on Google Maps, it was learned Sunday. Chongryon's Tokyo headquarters was described as criminal on the online map, while the former Tokyo headquarters site of ...
In first, five defectors in Japan sue North Korea for ¥500 million over rights abuses
Five North Korean defectors in Japan filed a suit in Tokyo on Monday demanding Pyongyang pay ¥500 million in damages over its alleged human rights abuses. The suit was filed with Tokyo District Court and was the first legal action against the North Korean government ...
Two men detained after firing shots at pro-North Korea group's Tokyo headquarters
The right-wing activists shot up the gate of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan at around 3:50 a.m. but no one was injured.
ICC eyed to condemn North's '59-'84 repatriation program
Eiko Kawasaki, an ethnic Korean woman who spent 43 years in North Korea, announced a plan Friday to file a petition with the International Criminal Court to declare Pyongyang's postwar repatriation program a crime against humanity. According to Kyodo News, from 1959 to 1984 about ...
Major Korean junior high school, cut off from Japan's tuition aid, to close in March
A major Korean junior high school in Osaka that had its funding cut off by the central and other governments will effectively close in March, school officials said. "We've taken this measure to streamline our operations due to financial difficulties," an official of the school ...
Chongryon to pay Hokkaido hut owner for damages on behalf of arrested North Korean crewmen
A pro-Pyongyang organization plans to pay for the property taken from a remote fishing hut on an island off Hokkaido on behalf of the North Korean fishermen who were arrested over the crime, a source said. The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known ...
Tokyo police raid pro-North Korea insurer over alleged concealment of assets
The police raid a pro-Pyongyang insurer suspected of concealing assets to foil the debt-collection efforts of the state-backed Resolution and Collection Corp.
North Korean-run schools fall victim to Tokyo-Pyongyang tensions as funding dries up
As tensions between Tokyo and Pyongyang mount, prefectures begin cutting funding to North Korean-run schools in Japan under a new ministry directive.
Pyongyang slams Osaka court ruling rejecting subsidies for Chongryon-backed schools
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 ...
Osaka court rejects suit over halt in subsidies to pro-Chongryon schools
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 ...
