To this end Japan regards this matter as a core issue in implementing its foreign policy.

This year, too, Japan singled out the above-said matter as the most important task of its diplomacy and has been hectic in its efforts to fulfil it.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan officially specified in its 2009 "diplomatic blue book" that it should sit on the UNSC as early as possible.

Diplomatic officials including the foreign minister have been busy with money and solicitation diplomacy in the international arena, openly making a bid for the permanent membership.

Can this bid be interpreted as a proper one?

This bid of Japan has been coolly responded to wherever it was made.

For all desperate diplomatic efforts Japan failed to convince the international community. Nobody else is to blame for this.

Japan is not prepared politically and morally to fit for the above-said post.

In a word, Japan has failed to win the confidence of the international community because it has not yet settled its past history woven with so many crimes.

More than six decades have passed since the Second World War during which Japan did so awful damage to humankind but it has persistently shunned the settlement of its past crimes, a due legal and moral obligation as a war criminal state.

It is nonsensical to give Japan a chance to sit on the UNSC so that it may exercise its say over major pending political issues in the international arena as it has shown no will to settle those crimes.

In this context Japan should sincerely repent of its crime-woven past. This is not for the sake of others but for its own sake.

Japan lacks the ability to judge the reality that it can never achieve its political purpose unless it earns the international confidence.

This is evidenced by the fact that far from redeeming its hideous crimes committed in the past Japan is getting talkative about "international contribution", while intensifying the moves for militarization and overseas aggression.

The world people are becoming more cautious as the days go by about the above-mentioned bid of Japan.

The number of the countries which clarified their official stands not to support Japan's bid is on the steady increase. Signature campaigns opposing Japan's bid were widely conducted in different countries including Asian countries.

It is quite natural that Japan can hardly win international confidence as it is so politically imbecile that it still thinks money is everything and is once again rushing headlong into aggression, far from drawing a lesson from its crime-woven past.

Japan should settle its past crimes, first of all, if it wants to exercise any right in the international arena.