They forcibly conscripted and abducted more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans to force medieval slave labor on them or drive them out as cannon fodder during their colonial rule.

They concocted or revised various evil laws including "The Law on National Mobilization", "Ordinance on Labor Conscription" and "Ordinance of Women's Voluntary Labor" and forced lots of Koreans to slavish working sites, deathtrap, regardless of age and sex and massacred them in group or made them crippled.

The forcibly-conscripted Koreans were taken away to every place where the Japanese imperialists set foot.

They deprived the Koreans of elementary freedom and rights and bled them white at dangerous working places such as military establishments projects, coal and ore mines and dyke construction sites without providing them with slightest working conditions.

According to the data available in 1944-1945, the Koreans were forced upon slavish labor at more than 540 military establishments projects in Japan.

While squeezing the Koreans, the Japanese imperialists failed to pay them negligible wages needed for rejuvenation of labor power.

The Koreans who were weak and went hungry were compelled to work 14-16 hours a day at the slavish working sites.

Many Korean children under the age of 15 drudged at a colliery in Kyushu area of Japan, tens of them buried alive in a roof-fall accident.

The Japanese imperialists applied every conceivable inhuman punishment to the Koreans who incurred their feelings even a little such as beating them with baseball bat and making them stand for a long time with a bucket in hand.

Besides, they burnt their bodies with hot thick iron bars and knifed their flesh and put a hot lump of lead into it.

Not content with such barbarities of bleeding Koreans white and making them disabled, the Japanese imperialists slew them cold-bloodedly.

According to the records, more than 60,000 Koreans lost their lives at the end of the slavish labor at coal mines of Japan in the period from 1940 to 1944.

How much water may flow under the bridge, the Korean people will never forget the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists to exterminate the Korean nation and make them pay for the blood shed without fail.