Blinky Sues to Evict Korean School

[homesweethome]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-07-15-voa5.cfm

A group of South Koreans, including more than 30 members of that country's National Assembly, are appealing to Tokyo's metropolitan government not to evict a Korean elementary school from land that it has used rent-free from decades. What is remarkable about the support from South Korea is that the school is run by an association allied with communist North Korea.

For nearly 60 years the Edagawa Korean School has existed on property owned by the Tokyo metropolitan government. The Koreans had come to believe they were promised use of the land rent-free in perpetuity. But the local government, headed by nationalist governor Shintaro Ishihara, is suing to get the land back and asking for $4 million in rent from the time the actual lease expired in 1990.

I didn't do a search but it seems strange that this sort of stuff never appears in the Japan papers. Now South Korea comes to the aid of a North Korean school in Tokyo. Maybe there is hope for Korean Unification after all.

[Ptyx]

Yeah, but what's weird is the presence of North Korean schools in Japan in the first place.
I learned that watching Go which is not bad by the way. Basically the kids are educated the way they would be in NK even though they're born in Japan and most of them probably won't go to Korea when they graduate. Well the one who are not totally clueless anyway.
Knowing the Japan/NK relationship it's weird that they let those schools going on.

[homesweethome]

Ptyx:

Knowing the Japan/NK relationship it's weird that they let those schools going on.

Those NK schools came about because of the forced abductions of Koreans to work as slaves in Japan during the war. After the war some stayed and then the Korean civil war broke out. Everyone of Korean citizenship in Japan had to choose loyalty to one Korea or the other. There was no having it both ways and no changing once the choice was made. Some chose NK because they had family there or that's where they were from, and yes even some believed Kim's 'worker paradise' gibberish. Whatever the reasons those with NK citizenship were obligated to set up a NK school on ground the Japanese government provided. I am sure they were promised it 'in perpetuity.' However they only had (or could get) a 60 year lease which expired. The nationalists are back in power and Ishihara wants the land back along with back rent.

Like most evictions in Japan, Blinky will probably have to find them another place to set up shop. A lot of money though. Now South Korea is involved, Blinky just keeps poking the almost dead embers to try to start a fire. He will probably succeed. He has lots of encouragement.

[AssKissinger]

[AssKissinger]

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-video/Guardian/video/2003/02/12/northkorea.mov

[AssKissinger]

another video http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/nkorea-famine.1.ram

[American Oyaji]

I couldn't watch that whole video.

I couldn't stand it. Those little ones in pain that cannot be helped.

[Buraku]

North Koreans in Japan paying for the nuclear test
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=6280&t=North+Koreans+in+Japan+paying+for+the+nuclear+test
Unilateral sanctions declared by Tokyo against Pyongyang as a punishment for its “nuclear provocation” on 9 October are unlikely to have serious repercussions on most people in Japan, excluding a community of around 600,000 North Koreans living there. These people will have to endure new humiliations because of the decisions of Pyongyang’s regime and they risk losing all contacts with family members on the peninsula.

Korean attack !!
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