The International solidarity ' s campaign to obtain signatures for Korean residents in Utoro, Japan to insist on the liquidation of the past history of Japan and guarantee of their housing rights and oppose to Japan ' s advancement to the permanent membership in UN.

Even if 65 house holds, 203 Koreans living in Utoro, Japan were taken by the Japanese imperialists during the war to make up for its much needed labor, by developing the unlivable land into a livable one, they have been living in Utoro for many years. However, they are currently living in anxiety facing an unfair forced eviction b the Japanese government. Utoro, a community of Korean laborers conscripted to build an airfield during the Japanese imperial period is the last village of conscripted Koreans who have had to face harsh poverty and ethnic discrimination in the coarse environment in which no water was available until 1988.

So far from giving reparations to those conscripted for the construction of the airfield, the Japanese government has left them to themselves. Adding insult to injury, the inhumane attitudes of the Japanese government and its local government forcing residents of Utoro to leave their homes gave us a great shock.

The barbarity of denying introspection of its wrong doing during the war and completely ignoring the housing rights declared by social rights covenant committee as well as the rights of ethnic minority protected by the international human rights law is the face of Japan struggling to secure a permanent membership in the UN.

e will continue to observe Japan ' s response and let the world know Japan ' s historical impudence and inhumane barbarity.