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Osaka mayor meets with anti-Korean group leader

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (C) leaves after cutting short a meeting with Makoto Sakurai, leader of Zaitokukai, a civic group known for its hate speech against Korean residents of Japan, at the Osaka municipal offices on Oct. 20, 2014.

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Osaka mayor meets with anti-Korean group leader

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (2nd from L) and Makoto Sakurai (far R), leader of Zaitokukai, a civic group known for its hate speech against Korean residents of Japan, stand up and exchange harsh words during their meeting at the Osaka municipal offices on Oct. 20, 2014.

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Osaka mayor meets with anti-Korean group leader

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (L) holds a meeting with Makoto Sakurai, leader of Zaitokukai, a civic group known for its hate speech against Korean residents of Japan, at the Osaka municipal offices on Oct. 20, 2014.

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Osaka mayor meets with anti-Korean group leader

OSAKA, Japan - Combination photo shows Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (L) and Makoto Sakurai, leader of Zaitokukai, a civic group known for its hate speech against Korean residents of Japan, during their meeting at the Osaka municipal offices on Oct. 20, 2014.

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High court upholds ruling against hate speech

OSAKA, Japan - Shinichi Tokunaga, the defense lawyer for Zaitokukai, a group of anti-Korean activists, answers reporters' questions in Osaka on July 8, 2014, after the Osaka High Court upheld a lower court ruling that had branded as "discriminatory" demonstrations staged near a pro-Pyongyang Korean school by the activists who used hate-speech slogans.

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Anti-Korean hate speech in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Members of an ultra right-wing group demonstrate in Osaka in March 2013. The full name of the group, known in short as Zaitokukai, can be translated as "a group of citizens who do not tolerate giving privileges to Korean residents."

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Disturbance against union office is racially offensive

Lawyers representing members of a local teachers' union head to the Takamatsu High Court on April 25, 2016. The court ruled a disturbance by anti-Korean activist group Zaitokukai against the union office in the western Japanese city of Tokushima in 2010 was a racially offensive act as the union provided financial support to a Korean school in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disturbance against union office is racially offensive

Lawyers representing members of a local teachers' union attend a press conference on April 25, 2016, after the Takamatsu High Court ruled a disturbance by anti-Korean activist group Zaitokukai against the union office in the western Japanese city of Tokushima in 2010 was a racially offensive act as the union provided financial support to a Korean school in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka mayor meets with anti-Korean group leader

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (L) holds a meeting with Makoto Sakurai, leader of Zaitokukai, a civic group known for its hate speech against Korean residents of Japan, at the Osaka municipal offices on Oct. 20, 2014. (Kyodo)

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High court upholds ruling against hate speech

OSAKA, Japan - Shinichi Tokunaga, the defense lawyer for Zaitokukai, a group of anti-Korean activists, answers reporters' questions in Osaka on July 8, 2014, after the Osaka High Court upheld a lower court ruling that had branded as "discriminatory" demonstrations staged near a pro-Pyongyang Korean school by the activists who used hate-speech slogans. (Kyodo)

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Court orders far-right group to pay damages for defamation

Lee Sin Hae, a Korean freelance writer, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 27, 2016, after the Osaka District Court ordered anti-Korean group Zaitokukai and its former chairman Makoto Sakurai to pay her 770,000 yen in damages for defamation. The court ruled the group repeatedly insulted her in online postings and during street campaigns in Kobe from 2013 to 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo