The campaign is participated in by Koreans of various circles in Japan including students of Korean schools in Japan and their parents and trade unions and friendship organizations in Japan including the Japan Teachers' Union and the "Peace Forum".

The signature campaign which has been under way since May has already surpassed its goal of collecting signatures from 500,000 persons over the issue of tuition aid to the Korean schools.

Members of the "National Liaison Council of Students of Korean High Schools" made up of student representatives of Korean high schools in different places including Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto visited the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan on July 27 and handed to it a list of signatures of at least 117,700 persons urging the Japanese authorities to include Korean schools in the tuition aid program for senior high schools.

Noting that it is obviously an infringement upon the human rights and discrimination to deprive students of their right to learning, they declared they would wage an unflinching struggle against the Japanese government's discriminatory policy as regards national education in the future, too.