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Protest against North Korean school’s invasion of public park land

The video embedded below shows members of the right wing citizens’ group Shuken Kaifuku wo Mezasu Kai (The Society to Seek Restoration of Sovereignty) holding a protest against a North Korean school in Kyoto*. Judging from the intro to the above video clip, they’ve taught themselves some fancy video editing techniques since the last time I posted one of their videos:

The first minute of the video provides highlights of the entire set [Part 2/Part 3/Part 4/Part 5/Part 6].

According to the video description, the protest is against the North Korean school’s unauthorized use of a nearby park. Without seeking permission from local authorities, the school basically turned the park into part of its campus, erecting goal posts and even a metal podium. This has apparently been going on for decades. The angry protesters try to dismantle some of the equipment and throw it against the gate of the school. Just like some of their other protest activities, it involves a lot of shouting over loud speakers.

I have not had time to watch all 6 videos, but from skimming through them, it would appear that a police officer summoned to the scene lectures them on how they are not allowed to take the law into their own hands. They seem to give up and leave the area. (If anyone has watched the protest videos in their entirety, leave a comment and I’ll add information to this post.)

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*Related Clip: Here’s a pretty good news clip about the existence of North Korean schools in Japan, which teach pro-Pyongyang propaganda to members of Japan’s Korean community:

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34 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - December 8, 2009 at 5:58 am

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RMilner

I hold no torch for the right-wingers however I can sympathise with their anger at the NK grabbing and privatising public land.

John

NK grabbing and privatising public land?

They are using that park for their school children you ding dong…are they building nuclear weapons on that piece of land? NO!
http://npc.talkingincircles.net/ NPC

My thoughts exactly. Good to see them doing something remotely productive for once.

Mr. USA

That’s funny – commies wanting to privatize public land. Don’t they usually steal private property?
fg

The Hegelian dialectic on display but utterly FAILS in front of an alcoholic lawyer and incompetent local government workers! Victory!

The guy in the leather jacket talks like he is on meth.
Who funds these guys?
HamachiMan

I’d be upset too if some people who promote a governmental agenda completely at odds with my government, decided to see fit to do things as they like in using unauthorized property.

It’s good to see Japanese citizens having some backbone for once.

goat

It’s good to see Japanese citizens having some backbone for once.

Backbone? By shouting キムチ臭い？ (as seen in one of the vids)
These guys are dickless bullies, plain and simple.
fg

HamachiMan,

These guys are goons. Where are the local folks protesting?

The majority of ordinary Japanese don’t care if Chosun School kids use a public park for a bit of soccer fun.

Yeah they are heavily indoctrinated in their school with N. Korean bullcrap, but they are still our neighbors, and this kind of silly confrontation is most DESPISED by Japanese standards.

HamachiMan

Yea I guess you guys are right. But still, I don’t particularly care for a school that wants to indoctrinate their kids in the North Korean way on Japanese soil.

tensigh

North Korean schools in Japan. Now I’ve seen everything.

I can imagine classes going something like this:

“Yes, class, North Korea is so much better than this awful, horrible, Imperialistic country! It’s SO AWFUL in Japan that I will deprive myself the privilege of EVER going back home! Yes, I’m going to stay in Japan, use the electricity, eat food and exersize freedom of speech here just to SPITE the Japanese! I know the Great Leader wants me to stay the hell away from the motherland! Yes! I’m going to make the sacrifice of never going back!”

Eddie

If you believe what the media tells you then I guess you would make such assumptions.

tensigh

Can you enlighten me on what you know about North Korea?

LB

What I always thought was really funny was that the Chosen Soren-run (North Korean) schools refuse to become accredited by the Japanese Education Ministry, as meeting Japanese rules or standards is a plot by the Japanese to make the Koreans into “Japanese” and deprive them of their cultural heritage. Then they further complain because students who graduate from these schools cannot go on to enroll in Japanese state-run universities as there is (or was, this made the news a few years ago) a requirement that only students who graduated within Japan from accredited senior high schools could go enroll in these universities (private universities can set their own entrance standards).

I never understood that – if you are so concerned about being made to turn “Japanese” why the hell would you want to go to a state-run Japanese university anyway?!?

Mindan-run (South Korean) schools, while few in number and decreasing, did get Japanese accreditation by the way. They had a lot fewer problems with the idea.

http://www.dreaming-artemis.com dreamingArtemis

what a weird chicken and egg line of thought……how did they even get to set up a school in japan anyway?! I thought with all the bloody UN sanction they would barely even have a toothpick to use in NK

LB

Who said North Korea sponsors the schools anymore? Money flows from Japan to North Korea, not the other way around (although less flows than it used to). The Chosen Soren has enough money of its own to run the schools.

And North Korea has not always been hopelessly broke, or under UN sanctions. These schools go way back.

Peter Sutcliffe

The North Korean School should be allowed to use the park,but not allowed to leave their equipment as permanent fixtures there.
Use the park but don’t take the piss.
Vonskippy

I don’t get it – why does Japan allow NK schools in Japan?

You don’t see alot of NK schools in Europe or the States – so what’s the deal?

http://www.dreaming-artemis.com dreamingArtemis

Yeah, that is a good question. How did they get their school there?!

lady gaga

Koreans are just like (…) in my country …Rich and influential but complaining and staying … Criticizing host country culture but blindly loyal to own’s nations’ superstitions and ideas … Can you move your homeland you cherish so much, please …

Hanzo’

Would you mind not generalizing Koreans as whole, despite what you read or watch from the media or your prior experience with “some” Koreans, not all of them are what you describe them as.
lacrimosa

[Immigrants of any background] are just like (…) in my country …Rich and influential but complaining and staying … Criticizing host country culture but blindly loyal to own’s nations’ superstitions and ideas … Can you move your homeland you cherish so much, please …

There, fixed it for you.

Weirdo

チンピラですね、わかります。
k9

i think that these problems regarding of the koreans in japan(zainichi) are caused by JP government, which have treated them as an untouchable. the right wing should criticize JP administration first.

by the way, i have happened to hear that…. strong xenophobia is still existing in korea too and even zainich can be target of a discrimination. in fact, there is the slur ‘ban-jjokpari’(half-jap) against zainichi in korea thus one of the reason of why they dont naturalize is because they are afraid of discrimination by their brotherhood. especially north koreans, if they stop remiting money from jp or acts of anti-jp,they may possibly be treated as same as japanese by their brotherhood.

if this story is true, i feel sympathy for them.

Michael

You’re exactly right–the “hankyoreh” (one people) attitude is strong in Korea, but the yanbian Koreans get the short end of the stick. Most Korean women who live in Japan are shunned, as the men assume they’re prostitutes; Korean women who live abroad are also shunned, as the men assume they’ve had sex with dirty foreigners.

Typical Korean guys are comical in their insecurity, irrationality, and xenophobia.

madne0

Call me a Nazi if you want, but these NK schools are disgusting. It’s a testament to Japan’s tolerance that they’re allowed to function.
ali3nSXfiend

Pithy and weighted with truth.
Dr.Yu

It’s done. Japanese sovereignty was restored.
I’m sure those courageous patriots will be buried in Yakusuni after they are death.
MC Okii Dokii

This kind of reminds of the time my neighbors tree was growing into my backyard. I use to hang on it and climb on it when I was younger. Later on in my teens, my mom wanted to grow a garden under that area where tree limb hungover. So legally, (according to Canadian law) I m allowed to cut off the limbs of the tree that are in my air space. I did just that and a few months later the tree ended up dying.
It was actually kinda sad when I look into my backyard and I dont see the one I used to play in as a kid.

(OH and the neighbor was pissed…. ooops.)

Personally, I think that the NK school should have went through the proper authorities to erect their stands or play area (I m assuming they pay for it and its not private)
If kids in the area can use it too and not only the NK kids I dont see any harm.

However, I don`t agree with that kind of protesting.
again theres proper authorities to get things done.

(Unless the local govt is as useless as they are in my area, then I can see how this can be an issue)
Hinomaru

The North Koreans should be getting on its hands and knees to the Japanese that Japan is a tolerant country, as if they say in their own country Kim JOng Ill is a bad and dishonest dude, see how far that’ll get you It’ll get you killed.

if the US, France or even Russia had the same thing going on with the Norks in Japan (Al Kaida related group comes close), you know what they will do. They will use force like a pit bull to shut it down. In comparison, Japan is a chihuahua.

Like what Bush said (even though he reniged and became a hypocrite), you are with us or with the terrorists. There’s no way around it. There’s no ways around it and if you don’t take a tough stand, the Norks will never respect you.

The discrimination that the zainichis encounter, is all exaggerated.

According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan#During_World_War_II

by the research of Mindan (the South Korean syndicate) only 13.3% of the population was conscripted (drafted) and the rest came voluntarily from the Korean peninsula. The majority of the Koreans were sent back to Korea (as per GHQ order)and those that remained, did so voluntarily or snuck back into Japan to avoid being killed by fellow Koreans.

A 4 part series in Japanese only on Youtube on the Japan Korea history as seen below says a lot about the Koreans and how the Japanese were tolerant in comparison to other countries:
日本が韓国の植民地【村田春樹】こんな授業受けたかった①

Koreans would not have been looked down upon, if the Koreans did not riot after WW2 claiming to be Allied victors and rape, loot and murder. The same thing happened to the Japanese in Korea. Did Korea apologize for their ‘atroities’? I never heard of it, have you?

While Korea swears up and down Japan was evil, they refuse to acknowledge they committed lots of evil and cover it up with lies. The subject matter was even on http://www.rjkoehler.com, where the corrupt Korean government killed more of their fellow citizens than 36 years of the Japanese rule and not only that Koreans lied about it.

While individual Japanese may discriminate, the Japanese governent does not and Japan is not involved in such discrimination, despite the Japanese being kidnapped, having nuclear weapons pointed at them wiht the threat of having a nuclear holocaut, TAkeshima being robbed and having to put up with bad Korean behaviour on this blog

and also check this blog out on you tube titled in Japanese only: 日本人弁士を襲う韓国人 !
The Korean teenager beats up a Japanese guy for criticizing North Korea, also this video on youtube in Japanese 韓国テレビ取材に西村修平がアドバイス of shukenkaifuku no kai telling Koreans that their bad behaviour is the cause of all problems between Japan and Korea.

The whole world is begining to see that the Koreans are exaggerating their victimhood and it is just too much of a headache in dealing with them. If Koreans want to be respected, they need to learn how to behave, follow rules and be truthful of all the bad things they have done, instead of blaming all bad things on Japan, USA, North Korea.

Without the Koreans doing their part, it is just a waste of time.

Koreans should just go home. You’ll do all of us a favour. You know they don’t want to, as their country is Fxxked up. Why do you think year after year Mexicans go to the USA, Africans and Muslims go to Europe, Indonesians to Australia and the Chinese & Koreans everywhere. At least with most of the Mexicans and others, they are smart to play the system within the law and not blaming the country they sneak into for all their problems.

Koreans need to just grow up or go home. Japanese are not interested (rather than tolerant), but if the KOreans push too hard, they will regret they did that.
Mintia

If the US had any sort of equivalent to these North Korean schools, it would be Cuban schools with a portrait of Fidel Castro honoring each classroom scattered throughout South Florida. Makes you realize as other posters have indicated, how tolerant the Japanese are.

tensigh

The reason that there aren’t Cuban schools with pictures of Castro on the wall is because CUBAN REFUGEES (or escapees) would tear down the schools and burn the images of Castro.

The Japanese aren’t being tolerant here, they’re being apathetic.

yea ok…

Oh I didn’t know that South Korea was being implied in this as well…

What was the title of this post again? “Protest against North Korean school’s invasion of public park land” oh yea..
Halal Islam

Why can’t the Japanese government make the pro-NK group illegal in the first place? Instead of complaining all about the crazy Juche worshipers living in this democratic society, we should criticize the Japanese government for not performing the appropriate measures against the Chosen Soren after the end of the Cold War.

“Allah is the positive light for Japan.”
kimsei

I really want them to interview some of the Koreans in the school. I want to hear what they think about their stay in Japan and what is really going on.

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