Minju Joson Tuesday observes this in a signed commentary.

Quite contrary to Germany's behavior, Japan has neither admitted nor apologized, nor paid for the past crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists during its invasion of Korea, nor showed any intention to do so for more than six decades since the end of the war.

The Japanese reactionaries, however, are becoming so brazen-faced as to distort and justify the crimes perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists against humanity in the past, kicking up a whirlwind of militarism throughout the society.

It is a legal and moral obligation and a historical task of Japan to redeem its past crimes.

Japan is craftily behaving with the calculation that the flow of time would make its past crimes fade away from the minds of the people and they would be no longer a subject of discussion in the end. This is a serious miscalculation.

If Japan tries to keep its past crimes buried into oblivion by going without redressing them, this would only add to its crimes and invite more serious punishment.

No matter how much water may flow under the bridge, the Korean people will never forget the Japanese imperialists' history of criminal aggression of Korea but force Japan to pay for it without fail.

Japan would be well advised to face up to the trend of the times towards settling past crimes and opt for redeeming its past wrongs as soon as possible.