10W2112003E Fujii Ayaka
Japan As a Multicultural Society

Questions
Q1. What kinds of image do you have for 朝鮮学校 (Chosen School)?
• Strong ethnic education?
• Having a feeling like….terrible/bad?
Q2. Can you imagine what percentage of Ethnic Korean in Japan go to Chosen
School?

 Basic Information
 Chosen Schools
The change
The reason to have the name “Chosen”
The fact of the schools
 Kankoku Schools and Japanese schools
 Conclusion
 Discussing Question
Outline

Basic Information
The ratio of Zainichi
Korean (root)
The number of Korean
Sounth
Korea schools
4
North
Korea
South
Korea
Total: 610,000 people (2008)
72
North
Korea
(2011)

Chosen schools
School Education in Chosen Schools
 Political ideology
 History classes imprying uncreatical praise for readers
 The portraits are taken down
 “Our school isn’t for North Korea”

Chosen schools
Why do they have the name of
“Chosen”?
(Richer….)
North Korea
Helped
Indebeted, Thanksful
Zainichi
In Japan
Today’s role: Just a symbol

Chosen schools
1970s: about 160 schools around Japan
4o,ooo students
2011: 73 schools
8,300 students
Less than 10 % of children go to Chosen school.

Chosen schools
The reason not to go to Chosen school
 Full access to Japanese university
 Feeling uncomfortable with the ideological schooling and a sense of distract from abduction issue
 Growing up to marry with a Japanese person
 Wanting to take “better education” especially language study

Kankoku schools and Japanese schools
Tokyo Korean School 東京韓国学校 (total 1,100 students) http://www.tokos.ed.jp/vod/en_movie.html
Emphasize
Trilingual education.
Educational Fundation Baekdu Hagwon
建国幼・小・中・高等学校
Kongo Gakuen Elementary, Middle & High School
金剛学園
Work by
Education Act
Kyoto International School 京都国際中学・高等学校

Kankoku schools and Japanese schools
 The majority of ethnic Koreans (including “new comers”) goes to Japanese schools.
 The use of real name problem
 The existence of Zainichi Korean teachers

Conclusion
 In order to Japanese media or our recognition produced years ago, we tend to have a prejudice for them.
 The media bias make us not see the real fact.
 It is important to feel the things to CLOSE to me.
<Task>
 Focusing on name issue in Japan in terms on assimilation
 Managing to research Kankoku schools

Fin…

Discussing Question
Q. Which school would you like to make your child go?