Korean schools urge gov't not to exclude them from program

Korean schools urge gov't not to exclude them from program

TOKYO, Japan - Choe In Tae (C), vice chairman of the Conference of Principals of Korean High Schools in Japan, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo's Yurakucho on March 2, 2010. Choe, also the principal of a pro-Pyongyang high school in Ibaraki Prefecture, urged the government not to exclude such schools from a planned program to make high schools tuition-free.

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