Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Koreans in Japan significantly celebrated the greatest auspicious April holiday of the nation.

Officials of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) met at the Central Hall of Chongryon in Tokyo on April 14 to lay a flower basket before the portrait of President Kim Il Sung.

All the participants paid tribute to the President, praying for his eternal life.

Officials of the central leadership bodies of Chongryon, too, laid bouquets at the portrait of the President and paid tribute to him on the same day.

A meeting of Koreans in Japan took place at the Central Hall of Chongryon on April 13 to celebrate the 113th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung.

Present there were Chairman Ho Jong Man, First Vice-Chairman and Director of the Organizational Department Pak Ku Ho, Vice-Chairmen Nam Sung U and Jo Il Yon, Vice-Chairman and concurrently Director General of the General Affairs Department Pae Jin Gu, Vice-Chairman and Director of the Education Department Song Kun Hak and Vice-Chairman and Director of the International Affairs Department So Chung On of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon, Kang Chu Ryon, vice-chairwoman of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee and chairwoman of the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan, Ri Myong Yu, chairman of the Central Audit Committee of Chongryon, department directors of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, school inspectors, advisers, the director of the Research Institute on History of Korean Residents in Japan and chairpersons of Chongryon headquarters in the Kanto area.

Chairman Ho Jong Man made a report.

The reporter praised the great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung as the great man who enjoyed absolute support and trust from the people for his outstanding ideology, leadership and noble virtue and glorified all the annals of the revolution and construction with proud victory and glory.

The great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung gave joy of national liberation to Koreans in Japan, who were dragged to Japan and shed tears of blood as a stateless nation, and formed Chongryon on May 25, 1955, thus firmly putting the movement of Koreans in Japan on the orbit of Juche, he said.

The ideas and cause of the fatherly leader were steadily carried forward and developed by the great leader Generalissimo Kim Jong Il and are now developing onto a new high stage thanks to the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un possessed of extraordinary leadership ability, he added.

The reporter ardently called upon all the officials of Chongryon and compatriots to further consolidate their faith in sure victory, more powerfully demonstrate the might of Chongryon, the precious patriotic legacy of the great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung, and make all-out efforts to usher in an era of comprehensive development of the movement of Koreans in Japan under the brilliant blueprint of the prosperity of Chongryon clarified by the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.

A congratulatory letter to the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was read out at the meeting.

A lecture was given at the Central Hall of Chongryon on April 11 to celebrate the 113th birth anniversary of the great leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung.

A video titled "A Great Man of the People" was shown at the lecture to celebrate April 15. -0-