The New York City authorities recently decided to erect a new monument to "comfort women" for the Imperial Japanese Army near Flushing Avenue in the city and name a road there in memory of "comfort women" despite the strong protest of Japan.

This case took place in the wake of the incident in which Japan dispatched a delegation of the Liberal Democratic Party to New Jersey and asked its mayor to get the monument to "comfort women" removed, even offering a lot of money, only to experience a hot agony of shame. This sends a clear message to Japan.

This clearly reflects the international community's opinion and judgment of the Japanese imperialists' indelible crimes against humanity in the past.

One can still hear the voices of grudge-bearing victims of the monstrous crimes perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists during their military occupation of Korea in the last century and international community's growing voices demanding Japan make reparation for its past crimes.

As proven by the reality, Japan is still in the dock as far as the human rights abuses are concerned.

It is quite natural for Japan to draw a due lesson from its past crimes and take a proper attitude and stand on the issues of apology and reparation for them.

Nevertheless, Japan has become so crazy about denying the sexual slavery that even the Japanese prime minister let loose a spate of balderdash that "the claim 'comfort women' were sexual slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army is quite different from the correct expression."

Japan is refusing to admit historic facts, far from making apology and reparation for the thrice-cursed crimes by the Japanese imperialists against humanity, just waiting for the days all the direct victims of the sexual slavery and eyewitnesses will die.

As a proverb says one makes a matter worse, brazen-faced and wicked attitude of the Japanese authorities concerned only adds to Japan's crimes.

No matter how hard Japan may try, it can never write off its history. The Korean nation will live on as a victim and eyewitness of the Japanese imperialists' crimes.

Japan calculates that it can write off its crime-woven history with its petty tricks. Herein lie the tragedy of Japan and the reason why the international community despises Japan as a country of political pigmies and cripples.

Now is the time for Japan to come to its senses as it has long experienced shame, politically and morally drubbed by the international community up to now since the end of the war.