But not many people know that the attraction was permeated with blood and sweat of Koreans forcibly drafted to Japan from the Korean Peninsula.

In November 1944, Japan took a large number of Koreans to the project for underground imperial headquarters in Matsushiro.

The Japanese overseers drove those Koreans to toilsome work from 4 a.m. They beat them to death and threw them alive into concrete mixture on the pretext that they did not meekly obey them. They did not even allow the burial of the Koreans' bodies in the vicinity of the construction site.

When they arrested the fleers, they mercilessly shot them to death.

On the plea of keeping secret, they massacred over 180 Koreans who were mobilized to build a bedroom of King Hirohito.

Such crime committed by Japan against Koreans is no more than a tip of iceberg.

Japan should opt for settling its crime-woven past at an early date, mindful that it can never evade from the responsibility for the tremendous crimes it committed against the Koreans.