The Japanese imperialists did not hesitate to encroach upon the sovereignty of a sovereign state and to kill even the top ruler to meet their sinister purposes.

They forced the Korean feudal government to conclude "Ulsa Five-point Treaty" in 1905 to secure a "legal guarantee" for putting Korea under their occupation and turning it into their colony.

As the then Emperor Kojong stubbornly opposed the conclusion of the treaty, Japan passed the buck for the 1907 emissary incident at Hague to him in a bid to dethrone him. Finally, Japanese imperialists killed him by poison.

The inside story of the incident was brought to light even by the diary written by the then minister of accounting and inquiry department of the Japanese royal agency on October 30, 1919 and by the "second declaration of independence" worked out by the "provisional government" in 1921.

On October 8, 1895 the Japanese imperialists stormed the palace of the feudal government of Korea and mercilessly killed the Empress Myongsong.

This cruel murder was an unpardonable terrorist act against the sovereignty of Korea.

These crimes are just a tip of iceberg of all the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people.

The colonial rule enforced by the Japanese imperialists was the hideous fascist repressive rule unprecedented in the world history.

Japan enforced the harsh "governor-general rule" over Korea under the motto "Koreans had to either obey Japan's law or die," turning its whole land into a veritable hell and dark land under the reign of fascist repression and murder.

A long period has passed since then but Japan is still keen to deny and justify the crimes it committed against the Koreans and other Asian people, far from admitting and apologizing for them.

As is unanimously commented by the world, Japan is seriously lurching to the Right with the distortion and denial of history getting all the more undisguised.

A resolution allowing the exercise of the "right to collective self-defense" was passed and there are arguments calling for the reexamination of Kono statement and Murayama statement inside Japan.

A recent disclosure showed that Suken Press deleted such descriptions as "comfort women for the Imperial Japanese Army" and "forcible drafting" from senior high school textbooks.

The Press has worked for it since last year and recently those descriptions disappeared from three kinds of textbooks with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. Students are said to use these textbooks from this year.

Japan has distorted, modified or deleted the parts related to its past history from not a few textbooks, thus teaching students a wrong history.

History of hideous crimes can neither be deleted nor written off.

It is a legal and moral obligation Japan has assumed before the times to reflect on its past crimes and make apology and reparation for them.

If Japan does not fulfill its obligations, quite contrary to the postwar international order, it can never win back trust of the international community and will only lose in the end.