School Representation in The Japan Times from 2013–2017

Chongryeon is a community organization of Korean permanently living in Japan. This organization publicly supports North Korea. Therefore, they have a bad reputation in Japan’s public eye. Newspaper is one of the tools that represent them. Also, this organization has ethnic schools that are widespread throughout Japan. Chongryeon schools often get unfair treatment from the Japanese government. One of them is a cancellation of their school tuition waiver from the government. This journal analyzes the representation of Chongryeon schools in The Japan Times. The author limits the discussion of this study between 2013–2017. This study uses a critical discourse analysis method. The purpose of this study is to see zainichi’s image in Japanese media after Japan and Korea’s tension arise in the end of 2012. The results of the study show that in The Japan Times, Chongryeon school dominantly represented as North Korea’s propaganda machine. Furthermore, zainichi bad image as non-Japanese often shows in every news article.