Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) — Even after their defeat, the Japanese reactionaries persistently pursued the heinous hostile policy toward the Korean people, oppressing the Koreans in Japan and mercilessly violating their human rights.
After their defeat, the Japanese reactionaries enacted and promulgated the “decree on foreigner registration” aimed at registering and oppressing all Koreans in Japan, which accounted for 90 percent of foreigners, and forcibly expelling them if necessary.
As a result, the Japanese reactionaries, who laid the foundation for indiscriminately oppressing Koreans in Japan at will, committed such cruel human rights abuses as monitoring and disturbing their residence, entry and exit under unreasonable pretexts.
Koreans were harassed or killed under the pretext of “stowaway crackdown”. In 1946, they arrested more than 26 000 Koreans and imprisoned them in camps in Kyushu area. Not content with subjecting them to all sorts of insult, the reactionaries killed hundreds of Koreans from April to August that year.
The Japanese reactionaries massacred Koreans in Japan by charging them with “violation of registration decree.” On September 7, 1947, a Japanese gang in Kitami City, Hokkaido, at the instigation of the government, attacked more than 40 Koreans with clubs, daggers, etc., killing two and seriously wounding five.
Such atrocities continued later.
In the 1960s Koreans were killed in Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture, Tenri City of Nara Prefecture, etc.
Japan’s frantic chauvinistic moves against the Korean people, including the vicious atrocities the Japanese reactionaries committed by raiding and destroying the dwellings of Koreans in Japan, are countless. -0-
