No Security Alarms for Children Who Need Them Most: Cartoon by Ichi-Hana-Hana

The Education Board of Machida City, Tokyo, did not provide the Korean Elementary School in the city with security alarms that are given or leased every year to the newly enrolled children of elementary schools. (Alarms are given to those going to public schools and leased free of charge to those going to private schools according to the request by the school.) The board explained that the decision was made taking into account the recent situation surrounding North Korea, but repealed it after receiving more than 500 phone calls, faxes and e-mails from citizens in protest. Following the Abe administration's decision to exclude Korean Schools from tuition-free system for high schools, many local governments suspended subsidies for Korean Schools. Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, suspended the subsidy and distributed books written by family members of a victim of abduction by North Korea to the students of Korean Schools. 
(Machida Education Board is written on the face of the man in the center. The man and woman on the right are shouting "Kick them out!" and "Hung yourselves!" The sign held by the man says "Kill Koreans." )

防犯ブザーが最も必要な子たち～風刺漫画：壱花花
　今年４月、東京都町田市の教育委員会は、毎年小学校の新入生に配布する防犯ブザーを同市内の朝鮮初等学校の児童には配布しなかった。（防犯ブザーは、毎年、市立小学校の新入生には配布、私立の学校にも希望があれば貸与している。）これに対して、「朝鮮学校の生徒は襲われてもいいのか」などと約500件の抗議が市民から寄せられ、市は決定を撤回した。安倍政権の、高校無償化からの朝鮮学校排除の政策は地方自治体にも波及し、各地で補助金廃止が相次いでいる。神奈川県川崎市は、補助金を廃止し、その代わりとして拉致被害者の本を支給した。