Korean Schools in Japan

In 1948, in the wake of Japan's defeat, the General Headquarters and the Japanese government ordered the closure of Chosen gakkō, the schools for Koreans in Japan. Koreans in Osaka mounted fierce resistance, and 16-year-old Kim Taeil was shot and killed by police - an episode known as the Hanshin Education Incident. Seven decades later, the oppression persists. Chosen gakkō are no longer eligible for free education. Against a backdrop of rising conservative hostility, the Abe administration is exploiting the education issue to foment political strife. Amid ongoing tensions in Japan, nonfiction writer KO Chanyu has spearheaded Korean Schools in Japan, assembling a historical account of Koreans' long struggle to secure education.