Speakers at the press conference held that Japan has denied the mass killing of Koreans during the great Kanto quake, claiming that the then military police and soldiers protected Koreans.

However, a document from the south Korean embassy proved the fact that a Japanese military policeman shot a Korean to death, they said, and went on:

At that time the Japanese imperialists brutally killed Koreans with iron hooks, pickaxes and bamboo spears. But the Japanese authorities played down or denied all those facts and are even spearheading the distortion of history textbooks.

Nevertheless, the south Korean regime has never urged the Japanese authorities to make a formal investigation and apology. The regime kept mum about the records of merciless killing of Koreans though they had been kept in the embassy. But the regime claimed they were accidentally opened to public. How can the people understand this?

The regime should urge Japan to open all data on mass killings of Koreans during the great Kanto quake, make a formal apology and reparation and stop distorting history textbooks and, at the same time, start a formal investigation with Japan at an early date.