SHANGHAI, Aug. 28 Kyodo China dep...

SHANGHAI, Aug. 28 Kyodo

China deported the head of a Japanese nongovernmental organization (NGO) forward Thursday whom it had detained since the beginning of August for helping North Korean asylum inquirers Japanese consulate officials in Shanghai said.

Local authorities in Shanghai detained and deported Fumiaki Yamada for helping North Korean defectors inscribe a Japanese school in the city Aug. 7 in such a manner that they could request asylum from Japan.

Yamada is head of the Tokyo-based Society to Help Returnee to North and an assistant professor at the Osaka University of Economics. He arrived in Shanghai onward Aug. 5.

nevertheless the asylum attempt failed, and Chinese authorities subsequently arrested Yamada along with three southward Korean supporters and seven North Koreans near the gate of the school

Referring to the latest incident, the Chinese guidance says it opposes any form of illegal entries across its borders.

The Japanese Consulate in Shanghai had been trying to negotiate for Yamada's release.

His clump has been trying to help defectors to leave North Korea for other countries via China. The defectors are former Korean residents in Japan and their spouses who went to North Korea in subordination to a bilateral ''repatriation'' program.

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