Lieutenant General Robert L Eichelberger, Commanding General of the U.S. Eighth Army, was dispatched to Kobe. Even under these circumstances Korean nationals defended several Korean schools including the Nishi Kobe Elementary School in Hyogo Prefecture from the closure order of Korean schools. In March 1951, more than 5,000 armed police attacked the Tokyo Korean Junior and Senior High School, when 200 students were wounded, many seriously. Despite the continuous suppression, Korean nationals have defended their democratic national education work till today with their own struggle and support by broad sections of the Japanese people. To regain the mother tongue is to regain their ethnicity, which means to live as human beings.
National education is the starting point, the present and the future of Korean people in Japan.
The spirit of the struggle 50 years ago, still lives today. The People's Korea. All rights reserved.