What is important in fundamentally removing racism and racial discrimination is to properly redeem the past, he said.

He cited facts to disclose that Japan enforced a harsh policy for the extermination of the Korean nation unprecedented in the world history of colonies, charging that the crimes against humanity have not yet been redressed although decades have passed and century has changed.

On the contrary, such acts as distorting middle school history textbooks for the purpose of justifying its colonial past and covering up the traces of the above-said policy and praising top-class war criminals as "heroes" have become all the more undisguised in Japan, he noted.

He referred to the fact that the Koreans in Japan, descendants of the victims to the past colonial policy, are subject to suppression and all kinds of discrimination in various fabrics of social life for no reason. Japan should redress its history interwoven with crimes against humanity as early as possible and stop the suppression and discrimination against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and Koreans in Japan, he said.