Court nixes tuition benefit for pro-Pyongyang school in Japan

A court dismissed Wednesday a claim by a pro-Pyongyang school operator in western Japan that it is entitled to participate in a government tuition waiver program covering most high schools in the country.The Hiroshima District Court turned down the demand by the operator of the Hiroshima Korean School and other plaintiffs including its graduates that the government pay 56 million yen ($500,000) in damages and revoke the "discriminatory" decision to exclude Korean schools from the tuition benefit scheme.The ruling was the first among five lawsuits filed around the nation against the state se…READ FULL ARTICLE