Gunma prefecture governor plans to meet with South Korean ambassador to remove memorial monument for Korean workers. Governor Yamamoto received a request for a meeting from South Korea's ambassador to Japan this month regarding the prefecture's removal in January of this year of a memorial monument.

After going through a court process, it was removed on behalf of the organization that was set up in January this year. The prefectural government has granted a renewal to a citizen's group to install a memorial monuments in Gunma no Mori.