The incumbent Japanese prime minister, Abe, revealed his intention to revise "Kono's statement" which acknowledged the sexual slavery forced by the Japanese army during the Second World War.

In this regard, U.S. House of Representatives members expressed concern at such policy of the Abe cabinet, calling for an apology for the crime.

The crime has been considered to be most shameful and brutal in history.

The Japanese imperialists set up the sexual slavery system allegedly to improve the army's war desire and combat capabilities.

About 200 000 Korean women, including teenagers, were forced to serve as sexual slaves for the imperial Japanese army in Korea, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore and other parts of the world occupied by Japan during the war.

Just before Japan's defeat in the war, its soldiers went the lengths of taking bodies of women as meal, and most of those women were murdered or took their own lives.

Japan's persistence on denying its past crimes touches off resentment from not only the Koreans but also the world people.