Osaka preschool hands out copies slurring ethnic Koreans, Chinese

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/02/17/tsukamoto.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Students recite the Imperial Rescript on Education and Confucian Analects at Tsukamoto kindergarten in Osaka, Japan, November 30, 2016. <cite>Reuters</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>OSAKA - A kindergarten in Osaka city handed out to parents copies of a statement slurring Korean residents in Japan and Chinese people, and its officials were recently questioned for suspected hate speech as a result, prefectural government officials said Thursday.</p><p>The statement distributed by Tsukamoto Kindergarten in Yodogawa Ward, operated by Moritomo Gakuen, described Korean residents in Japan and Chinese people as those with &quot;wicked ideas,&quot; calling the latter &quot;shinajin,&quot; a term considered derogatory toward Chinese people.</p><p>A prefectural government official questioned the kindergarten principal, Yasunori Kagoike, and his wife, who serves as deputy principal, on Jan. 12 after the local government was tipped off by a parent in December. Kagoike also heads the kindergarten operator.</p><p>While admitting to distributing the copies to the parents of kindergarten pupils, Kagoike declined to explain the reason for doing so, citing a pending lawsuit, according to the government.</p><p>A separate pamphlet distributed to parents in December and obtained by Kyodo News read, &quot;The problem is that people who have inherited the spirit (of Koreans) exist in our country with the looks of Japanese people.&quot;</p><p>A parent in her 30s received a handwritten letter from the deputy principal in February last year that bluntly said, &quot;I hate Koreans and Chinese.&quot; The woman, who is ethnically Korean but a naturalized Japanese, pulled her child out of the kindergarten several days later.</p><p>Kagoike recently told Kyodo that the kindergarten, known for making its pupils memorize Japan&#x27;s Imperial Rescript on Education -- an 1890 edict that was used to promote militaristic education before and during World War II -- is &quot;treating every country equally.&quot;</p><p>Moritomo Gakuen, an educational entity, has come under public scrutiny over the purchase of a plot of land owned by the central government in Toyonaka, Osaka, at a price significantly lower than the appraised amount.</p><p>The entity bought the 8,770-square-meter plot for 134 million yen ($1.18 million) last June despite its appraisal price of 956 million yen. The plot is intended for a private elementary school slated to open next April, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#x27;s wife Akie as its honorary principal.</p><div><strong>==Kyodo</strong></div>

<p>OSAKA - A kindergarten in Osaka city handed out to parents copies of a statement slurring Korean residents in Japan and Chinese people, and its officials were recently questioned for suspected hate speech as a result, prefectural government officials said Thursday.</p>

OSAKA - A kindergarten in Osaka city handed out to parents copies of a statement slurring Korean residents in Japan and Chinese people, and its officials were recently questioned for suspected hate speech as a result, prefectural government officials said Thursday.

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Osaka preschool hands out copies slurring ethnic Koreans, Chinese

Osaka preschool hands out copies slurring ethnic Koreans, Chinese

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Published Feb 17, 2017 12:40 PM PHT

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