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In Japan, under the special situation that Korea was under Japanese colonial rule, modern Korean studies education began and an educational institution of Korean studies was established. Korean studies concerns general knowledge of Korea including various fields such as language, culture, society, history, geography, politics, and economy. For Koreans who were living in Japan during the period of Japanese imperial occupation in Korea, there were evening schools and temple schools, which were educational institutions that teach children their heritage language, history, and culture. In the Kansai region, Osaka Foreign Language School and Tenri Foreign Language School were established by the Japanese, which were later reconfigured into universities. With the liberation of Korea from Japanese occupation in 1945, Koreans residing in Japan started to establish their own educational institutions to educate ethnically Korean children on Korean language, history, and culture, which were related to the identity of Korean people, training institutes, seminars, Korean language institutes, established various schools. However, when the Korean school closure order to shut down educational institutions established by Koreans in Japan was issued in 1948, the Hanshin education struggle occurred in the Kansai region around Osaka. As a result, ethnic classes were given after school at public elementary and junior high schools in the Kansai region, and various other educational institutions conducted ethnic education on Korea. In the 1960's, when the number of students attending ethnic classes fell, the Korean government began teaching Korean language and Korean culture throughout Japan, starting with the Korean Education Institute in Osaka in 1963, with the intent of complementing the existing ethnic education. From the beginning of the 1980s, Korean academic education was conducted mainly at Japanese universities, and it was decided that Korean ethnic classes in Japan and educational institutions of Korean will be conducted with Korean studies Since entering the global era, the Korean boom in Japan has caused many Japanese universities to adopt Korean language for education and to have Korean majors established. Furthermore, colleges, vocational schools, high schools, supplemental schools, and even companies also began to offer Korean studies. In particularly, the ethnic classes of Koreans in Japan and the educational institutions of Japanese Korean studies coexist in the Kansai region of Japan.