Minju Joson Wednesday observed this in a signed commentary.

This reflects not only the vehement condemnation of the Japanese authorities for persistently dodging a state apology and reparation for their past crimes but the unanimous will of the international community to force them to make apology and reparation for those crimes under any circumstances, the commentary noted, and went on:

Japan, a war criminal state of the Second World War and the perpetrator of hideous crimes against humanity, has neither admitted the monstrous crimes in the past nor apologized for them.

On the contrary, the Japanese authorities openly visited "Yasukuni Shrine", a symbol of militarism, whitewashing their history of aggression.

Japan's brazen-faced approach toward those crimes goes to prove that the Japanese reactionaries are obsessed with the idea of "advantages" of "Yamato nation" and extreme national chauvinism and do not have even the slightest will to completely break with its past crime-woven history.

The Japanese authorities' persistent evasion of state responsibility for the hideous crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against humanity in the past and their increased efforts to dodge apology and reparation for them would only invite hatred and rebuff from the international community.

Japan would be well advised to follow the precedent of the international community heading for full settlement of past wrongs.