It is shown by Japan's persistent attempts to take down the monument to comfort women for the Imperial Japanese Army in New Jersey State, United States.

Shortly ago, the Japanese consul general in New York and other Japanese diplomats asked the mayor of a city in New Jersey State to dismantle the monument and proposed an investment of a large amount of money in return for it.

The mayor declined to accept the proposal, bringing Japan into derision in the world eyes.

He said at a press conference that the monument is necessary to make war and violation of human rights not to repeat themselves.

The clan of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, however, urged the chief cabinet secretary and the foreign minister to promptly take down the monument.

What is ridiculous is that the foreign minister said "he will try to figure out the best way as there are several alternatives for attaining the purpose".

It is a shameless act indeed.

The ulterior aim behind the Japanese reactionaries' persistent approach to dismantling the monument is to hide the most hideous crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past and shirk their responsibility for settling the past.

The Japanese administrators seem to think they can cover up the past crimes forever by removing the monument.

It is highly ridiculous and foolish for them to think that way.

In the last century, Japan committed big crimes against human beings.

Especially the Japanese imperialists forced lots of women in the regions under their occupation to sexual slavery for the aggressor troops, the most hideous crime against humanity in the world history of wars.

The Samurais of Japan are unheard-of barbarians and human scum as they committed such a hideous crime beyond human imagination based on their abnormal military logic.

It is quite natural for the international community to demand the Japanese government admit the past crimes including the sexual slavery and make sincere apology and compensation for them.

But what is Japan doing?

It has gone to extraordinary length to prevaricate in the matter of its past crimes by deleting the expression "comfort women for the Imperial Japanese Army" from the textbooks for the senior high schools and deceiving the people with crafty farce of making "reparation" with public-raised fund.

This is a challenge to justice and conscience and another crime against the victims.

It is prerequisite for settling the past to make sincere apology and reparation.

It is impossible for Japan to gain something by showing off its money bag without sincere repentance of the past. It will only give birth to second, third monument to comfort women.

It will be beneficial for Japan, too, to settle its past.