Korean youth and students in Tokyo Metropolis have staged a protest action.

The moment it was reported that the Japanese government seeks to exclude the Korean schools in Japan from the tuition-free program for senior high schools, the organization of the Korean Youth League in Japan of Joson University formed the emergency measure committee and expressed its will to take the lead in the struggle to defend national education.

It called upon the organizations of Koreans in Japan to turn out in the struggle to lay bare the unreasonable discrimination against the Korean schools and check it.

All the students of the university conducted a signature campaign and information activities in different parts on March 6.

Students of the higher class of Tokyo Korean Senior High School conducted street information activities and signature campaign on March 2. In the meantime young Koreans under the said league, the Korean Youth Commercial Association in Japan and the Korean Students Union in Japan launched information activities, scattering copies of literature at major railway stations in Tokyo Metropolis on March 5.

Members of the Kyoto Prefectural Liaison Council of the Mothers Society for Korean Schools and parents of students at Kyoto Korean Senior High School staged a protest campaign on March 4. And members of Koreans' organizations in Kyoto including the Kyoto Prefectural Measure Committee for National Education of Koreans in Japan held an emergency meeting on March 5 at which they demanded the Japanese authorities apply the "program" into all foreign schools including the Korean schools.

Korean schools in Japan and civic organizations of Japan, too, cosponsored an emergency meeting in Osaka on March 4 at which they charged that the Japanese government is seeking to institutionalize the discrimination against the Koreans in Japan, linking the exclusion of the Korean schools from the "program" to the "abduction issue".