Japan persists in its moves to distort history but it will get nothing but international isolation, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a commentary.

The crimes of the Japanese imperialists are not an issue confined to Japan but an international issue as they were committed in many countries of the world, the commentary says and goes on:

It is Japan's past crime-woven history which can be neither erased by a huge amount of money nor changed through revision of the contents of history textbooks and amendment of the basic law on education.

The Japanese government's attempt to distort and conceal the crime-woven history of the Japanese imperialists is the waste of time and efforts and a foolish act of hurting it of its own accord.

The Japanese government should stop vain efforts and admit the heinous inhuman crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists and make an apology and reparation for them at an early date, though belatedly.

Doing so is the only way out for Japan to imposingly live, trusted by the international community, free from sense of sin pent up for more than half a century.