A meeting for thinking about the national education took place at the Korean Primary, Middle and High School in Hokkaido on April 13 in protest against the Japanese government which excluded the Korean schools only from the tuition-free program for senior high schools.

A meeting was held in Niigata Prefecture on April 17 in protest against the behavior of the prefecture office which suspended the payment of subsidies to the Korean school there.

A protest meeting took place in Saitama Prefecture on April 26.

Hiroshi Tanaka, honorary professor at Hitotsubashi University, in a recent lecture disclosed the problems concerning the policy of discriminating against Korean schools, urging the Japanese government and local self-governing bodies to reexamine the exclusion of Korean schools from the application of the system of assisting senior high schools and the measure taken to suspend the payment of subsidies to them.

The Saitama Lawyers' Association in a statement of its chairman demanded payment of subsidies to Korean schools.

"Network Saitama for Providing Institutional Guarantee for Foreign and National Schools" presented a written request to the Saitama prefectural governor calling for the payment of subsidies to Korean schools in the prefecture.

On April 24 and 25, Koreans in Japan and Japanese citizens in Hiroshima Prefecture staged a candlelight action to protect the right to national education outside the building of the prefectural office in protest against the step taken by the authorities in the prefecture to suspend the payment of subsidies to the Korean schools in Hiroshima.