Pro-N Korean school mums rally in Japan
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
TOKYO, Mar 16 (AFP): Hundreds of mothers whose children attend pro-North Korean schools in Japan rallied Tuesday, demanding that the government include them in plans to make high school tuition free.
Japan's six-month-old government on the same day passed a lower house bill to scrap school fees and give aid to private schools, meeting one of their key pro-family election campaign pledges.
The pro-Pyongyang schools have so far been excluded from the programme that starts in April after opposition from conservatives who say Tokyo should not support schools linked with the nuclear-armed communist country.
Japan's six-month-old government on the same day passed a lower house bill to scrap school fees and give aid to private schools, meeting one of their key pro-family election campaign pledges.
The pro-Pyongyang schools have so far been excluded from the programme that starts in April after opposition from conservatives who say Tokyo should not support schools linked with the nuclear-armed communist country.