Minju Joson Tuesday urges this in a signed commentary.

The commentary recalls that Germany has consistently paid reparation for the last several decades on the basis of its honest reflection on the gravity of the crimes it committed in the past.

It is regrettable, indeed, that only Japan is blatantly challenging the just demand of the international community for the settlement of its past crimes, without showing even the slightest sign of redeeming its past wrongs in the international arena at present, the commentary notes, and goes on:

The Japanese ultra right-wing reactionaries are whitewashing the criminal wars of aggression fought by Japan as "just wars" for "protecting" and "liberating" other Asian countries from the Western powers. They stooped to such an infamy as describing the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army, the worst tragedy in the 20th century, as deeds perpetrated by individual non-governmental businessmen and voluntary commercial wrongdoing by prostitutes.

Abe and other Japanese psychopaths are leaving no means untried to evade the responsibility for redeeming Japan's past crimes including the above-said sexual slavery at any cost, asserting there is no evidence enough to prove them.

It cannot but be a shame on the international community that there still exist in the world such betes noires bereft of even an iota of human conscience and morality.

It should bring them to the tribunal of justice and mete out a stern judgment to them.