Japan cash handout discriminated against Korean students: U.N. experts

Four U.N. human rights experts said in a letter revealed on Tuesday that the exclusion of students at Korea University from the Japanese government's cash handout program to mitigate financial difficulties amid the coronavirus pandemic was discriminatory.The letter was sent to the government in February, and a month later the financial aid scheme ended. But Japan ignored the experts' views at that time, denying the claim in April that the scheme, which no longer existed, had discriminated against such minority students.The letter had been sent by Tendayi Achiume, special rapporteur on conte…READ FULL ARTICLE