Minju Joson Tuesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

The Japanese reactionaries' visits to the shrine are a mockery of human conscience and an insult to the people of the countries that suffered from the war as they were prompted by their real intention to embellish the Japanese imperialists' past history of aggression and call back the departed soul of the militarists in a bid to launch reinvasion.

The group visit paid by the Japanese reactionaries to the shrine is a criminal act of prodding the younger generation of Japan into realizing the old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" which the predecessors failed to do.

Lurking behind this is an ulterior aim to deny and distort the Japanese imperialists' history of invasion against Korea and other Asian countries, describing it as "justice", and create a social atmosphere for reinvasion.

The hot wave of uninterrupted visits to the shrine raised by the Japanese reactionaries facilitates Japan's moves for turning it into a military giant and putting it under a wartime system, guided by the idea of militarism, and gives further momentum to madcap exercises for a war of aggression.

The spearhead of their reinvasion is being directed to Korea.

The Japanese reactionaries' undisguised claim to Tok Islet, their call for more stringent sanctions against the DPRK, the stepped-up building of submarines for the Maritime "Self-Defense Force," more frequent military exercises of the SDF, etc. are a revelation of their hysteria for staging a comeback to Korea which has gone beyond the danger line.

They would be well advised to face up to the trend of the times and give up their foolish ambition to launch reinvasion by calling back the departed soul of militarists.