They are working hard to promote militarist idea and make it pervade the Japanese society.

A typical example is the visit to Yasukuni Shrine by ultra-right politicians to pay respects to the war dead.

On August 15, ministers and Dietmen of Japan flocked to the shrine to mark the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

Among them were the chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and the minister of National Land and Communications. It is the first time that government ministers openly visited the shrine on Japan's surrender anniversary since the emergence of the Democratic Party regime in Japan.

55 Dietmen belonging to the Association of Dietmen for Visiting "Yasukuni Shrine" also flocked to the shrine.

Joining the visitors were the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Tokyo metropolitan governor and an official for political affairs of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Clear is the aim sought by the ultra-right politicians in taking the lead in the visit to the shrine.

After paying respects to the war dead at the shrine, Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Matsubara told reporters that he paid respects to the forerunners who laid groundwork for Japan's prosperity, indicating his aim to lay an ideological and moral foundation for reinvasion.

Yasukuni Shrine keeps the mortuary tablets of top-class war criminals who won infamy in the Japanese imperialists' wars overseas and, therefore, it serves as a symbol of Japanese militarism and a base for inspiring it.

Through the visits the Japanese reactionaries seek to make the Japanese cherish the memory of those who fell in the war battlefields for aggression and unsheathe the sword any moment, carrying forward their "soul".

No wonder, at least 80 Dietmen paid a group visit to the shrine in April and the president and the vice-president of the Liberal Democratic Party and other high-ranking officials let loose a spate of remarks calling back the departed soul of militarism.

This is not all. The Japanese reactionaries have persisted in the moves of distorting history textbooks to cover up their past crimes and instill the militarist view of history into the rising generation.

History textbooks deleted much of the content dealing with the sexual slavery committed by the Japanese imperialists and denied Nanjing massacre.

Far from drawing a lesson from its disgraceful defeat in the past, Japan is running reckless to realize its ambition for reinvasion. It is quite natural for Asian countries and the international community to raise critical voices, deeply concerned about it.

The Japanese reactionaries should immediately opt for honest apology and reparation for the past crimes, not fanning up the militarist revival.