A memorial service of Koreans in Tokyo was held in front of a monument to the massacred Koreans.

Present there were Pak Ku Ho, vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) who doubles as chairman of the Committee for Rights and Welfare, Hwang Myong, chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters of Chongryon, and other officials and Koreans and students in Japan.

The participants paid silent tribute to the dead.

Hwang Myong said in a memorial address that at that time, the Japanese authorities proclaimed a martial law, mobilizing troops, police, etc. to perpetrate monstrous massacre of Koreans in Japan.

Nearly 90 years have passed since then, but Japan is still refusing to probe the truth about the massacre, far from making any apology and reparation for it, he charged.

He also condemned the Japanese authorities of excluding only Korean schools from the tuition-free program for senior high schools and banning the entry of ship Mangyongbong-92, preventing Koreans in Japan from freely visiting their homeland.

He urged the Japanese authorities to lift the frantic sanctions against the DPRK and unreasonable national discrimination and human rights abuses against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan and realize the normalization of the DPRK-Japan relations on the basis of Japan's redemption of its past crimes this year, the tenth anniversary of the publication of the DPRK-Pyongyang declaration.

Speeches were made by Kim Kwan Chol, chairman of the Etogawa chapter of Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters of the Korean Youth League in Japan, Pak Yu Ri, student of Tokyo Senior High School, and representative of Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblymen's League for the Promotion of Japan-Korea Friendship and the Tokyo Dietmen's Liaison Society for the Promotion of Japan-Korea Friendship.