THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 28, 2020 at 17:25 JST
Participants at a Sept. 1, 2019, event in Tokyo's Yokoamicho Park place flowers in front of a monument for Korean victims of a 1923 massacre following the Great Kanto Earthquake. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A women's group that broke the capital's hate speech by-law at a 2019 event contesting the number of Koreans massacred after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake has been approved to hold a similar event in Tokyo this year. [Read More]
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