The system was in actuality aimed to nurture reserves of "draftees", "volunteers' corps" and "sexual slaves for the Japanese army".

On October 1, 1942, the Japanese Cabinet promulgated the "ordinance on special training of Korean youths" as decree No. 33 and "regulations on implementation" of this ordinance were announced on October 26 as "ordinance of Government-General in Korea" No. 269.

The Government-General in Korea gave an order to start the "special training" for uneducated young Koreans on December 1.

Thereby, nearly 2,700 "special training centers" were set up throughout the country until April 1, 1943, with more than 102,600 young people forcibly recruited.

The centers majored in education for transforming Koreans into imperial subjects, before drafting them as conscriptees of the imperial Japanese army.

The Japanese imperialists even recruited teenage girls to use them as "sexual slaves for the Japanese army." Tens of thousands of teenage girls were forced to receive Japanese-style moral and sexual education at the centers.

The "special training" system was a state-sponsored crime. But, Japan persists in denying the crime still now, far from making compensation for it.

Its denial has further fueled the Korean people's hatred against Japan.

Japan should repent of its past crimes at an early date, mindful that it is an issue related to politics, morality and international law.