On 26th January 2009, members of "The Association of Blacklisted Students of Tokyo" (*burakkurisuto no kai in tokyo*) visited the office of the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) in Ichigaya, Tokyo, with the aim of demanding the withdrawal of the "Blacklisting Plan" aimed at those who cannot afford to repay their scholarship loans. They also demanded the realization of providing true scholarships as opposed to State-sponsored student loans [under the name of "scholarships"]. As of this writing, they are still waiting for an answer from JASSO.
Below is the Open Letter addressed to JASSO. [...] www.edu-factory.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
