Speaking at the meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors of Japan Monday, he talked nonsense that the expression of "sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese army" is not correct.

This is an arrogant act of negating the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese army which the international community has so far branded as a hideous human rights abuse. This, at the same time, glaringly shows the negative approach taken by Japan towards the issue of reflecting on its past crimes.

The above-said crime is a typical example of state-sponsored violence against women.

This was the worst unethical crime committed by the Japanese imperialists in an organized and institutional manner by use of government and military powers, pursuant to their state policy enforced during their war of continental invasion.

They kidnapped and took away 200 000 Korean women and forced them into "sexual slavery" for the aggressor forces in battle fields and massacred them to cover up their despicable atrocities.

Japan was the only country in the world that committed group sexual slavery directly sponsored and enforced by the government and military.

However, Japan is working hard to evade state responsibility for the said crime, describing it as "deeds of individual prostitutes." It went the lengths of hypocritically claiming that the victims "volunteered to provide sex to earn money." There are countless examples of reckless remarks made by government officials of Japan in this regard. Some of them described the history of sexual slavery as that of "lavatory," rubbing salt into the wounds of the victims and it is not bad to see fewer descriptions of comfort women in textbooks.

Japan is persistently negating its crime-woven history in a bid to go without redeeming its crime-woven past.

Japan's attitude toward its past crimes amounts to an act of blatantly challenging the demand of the international community for Japan's settlement of its crime-woven history and an illegal act of adding to crimes.

Japan can never shirk its responsibility for mocking at humankind.

Any delay in Japan's redemption of its past would only add to its crimes and worsen its political position.