Dear Mr. Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General,

First of all, I would like to express my sincere respect for the efforts you and all your staff in UN have demonstrated to promote human rights, one of the most important values, and preserve world peace.

The reason I am writing to you is to explain the urgent situation of Koreans who are on the verge of being forced to evict from a village in Japan and ask for UN's help on behalf of those who need your help desperately. 203 Koreans living in 51 Utoro, Kyoto, Japan are either laborers conscripted to build military logistics airfield during the period when Korea was colonized by Japan or their children.

So far from providing reparations, the Japanese government and Nissan have been neglecting the issues faced by these Koreans. Despite severe poverty and discrimination against Koreans, people in Utoro have been living here for over 60 years by developing the uninhabited land.

Without prior consultation with inhabitants of Utoro, Nissan sold this land in 1987. Over night, the residents of Utoro became a defendant at a court in Japan and in accordance with the court's decision, they were ordered to evict from Utoro. The decision by the Japanese judiciary system was made without considering why the residents came to settle in Utoro and how much struggle they had to go through to make a living. It is a decision that ignores the history and housing and living rights of residents of Utoro.

Mr. Secretary-General, with all due respect, we sincerely ask you to help people in Utoro continue to live in security in Utoro without their community being destroyed and insist the Japanese government to settle the issues for which it is responsible.

Thank you.