On Oct. 26 unidentified ultra-right elements of Japan stealthily hammered a pile reading "Takeshima is part of inviolable territory of Japan" beside a stone monument erected in a city of New Jersey State of the U.S. to bear witness to the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army, stunning people.

On the same day they put up literature related to Tok Islets under the signboard of the south Korean consulate general in Washington and hammered a similar pile beside it the next day.

According to a disclosure, those criminals belong to the same group as that of Japanese ultra-right elements who bound with a rope a pile reading Tok Islets belong to Japan after hammering it beside the statue of a girl exposing the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army standing before the Japanese embassy in Seoul in June, a case that touched off public indignation.

It was reported that in the wake of the occurrence of the above-mentioned case Japanese ultra-right elements ran the whole gamut of rhetoric, praising the perpetrator of such folly as a hero. A few months later, the upbeat ultra-right elements of Japan also hammered a similar pile near the monument to Yun Pong Gil who threw a bomb at high-ranking military officers of Japan in protest against the Japanese imperialists' occupation of Korea in the past, creating big sensation.

The Japanese authorities, however, shielded and connived at the cases. At their prodding, the above-said elements committed such crimes in the U.S.

Growing strong among Americans from all walks of life including political, judicial, civic and social circles are voices that what Japanese ultra-right elements perpetrated is obviously a crime and terrorism.

A Korean in the U.S. said it is important to punish the main culprits of the above-said cases but it is more urgent to hold the Japanese government wholly accountable for its distortion and denial of history.