Chief of Japan Pension Service office removed after hate speech against Koreans

An anti-Korea rally at Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on June 5, 2016. Yonhap

By Jung Min-ho

The head of a Tokyo pension office has lost his job over hateful tweets against Koreans.

Yukihisa Kasai, head of the Japan Pension Service's (JPS) office in Setagaya Ward,

reportedly

said on Twitter that “Korean residents should be purged from Japan and new entries refused” and called them “cowardly people with vassal-like spirits.”

The incident came only days after a high-ranking official at Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare was dismissed as head of its wages division for allegedly assaulting a Korean Air employee at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul.

Kasai admitted to posting the tweets and, after the issue emerged, deleted them all.

He was dismissed from his post and transferred to JPS's human resource division.