Chōsen Gakkō

Chōsen gakkō ( ja, 朝鮮学校; ko, 조선학교) are schools located in Japan at which children from Korean communities in Japan receive their ethnic-centric heritage education.

Chōsen gakkō are foreign schools for children of Korean communities in Japan.

As of 2013, there were 73 grade schools and ten high schools in Japan.Talmadge, Eric.
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Fox News. As of 2014, there were about 150,000 Zainichi Koreans in Japan, and they form the clientele of the schools. As of 2013, these schools had almost 9,000 ethnic Korean students.

There is also a university in Japan, Korea University.

History

The schools were established in Japan by Koreans and people of Korean descent. The schools received increasing support from the Korean communities in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s.

Beginning in 2010 and by 2014, increasing tensions between the Japanese and North Korean governments caused Japanese municipalities and prefectures to end subsidies to the Chōsen gakkō. In the fiscal year of 2011 the Osaka Prefectural Government ended subsidies to an educational corporation which operates ten Chōsen gakkō.Watanabe, Natsume.
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The Japanese central government also took measures against the Chōsen gakkō. In 2010 it prevented the high schools from being a part of a tuition free waiver program. In February 2013 the Japanese central government, citing the development of the North Korean nuclear program and a lack of cooperation regarding the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens, officially declared that Chōsen gakkō may not be a part of the tuition waiver program.

On May 17, 2013, the United Nations Economic and Social Council released a report citing "The Committee is concerned at the exclusion of Korean schools from the State party’s tuition-waiver programme for high school education, which constitutes discrimination. (art. 13, 14)"

Lawsuits have been launched throughout Japan against these unfair treatments against Chōsen gakkō students as discrimination based on ethnic origin and heritage.

Schools

* Aichi Prefecture
** Aichi Korean Middle and High School (愛知朝鮮中高級学校)
** (愛知朝鮮第七初級学校)
** (名古屋朝鮮初級学校)
** (東春朝鮮初級学校) - Formerly had junior high school classesウリハッキョ一覧
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