Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Friday observes that what he said echoes the voices representing conscience and truth coming out from the turbulent political climate in Japan.

No matter how desperately the Japanese ruling quarters and the right-wing reactionary forces work to make profound confusing of right and wrong, they can never falsify the truth of history, the commentary notes, and goes on:

Last year the chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan blustered that he would ask the chief Cabinet Secretary to release a new statement on the lapse of 70 years since the end of the Second World War, at the party meeting held to discuss the issue of the government report on the Kono statement. The Japanese chief executive is working overtly and covertly to make public a new statement distorting and embellishing the crimes related to the sexual slavery and its past history of aggression. During his junket to the U.S. he described the victims of the sexual slavery as "victims of flesh traffic" and claimed that the sexual slavery was the result of flesh traffic. This was a revelation of his cynical ploy to play down the gravity of the past crimes in the new statement.

Japan, however, should clearly know that the forces desirous of properly clarifying historical truth and protecting it are stronger than those trying to distort and embellish its past history.

This is evidenced by mass demonstrations staged in the U.S. in demand of Japan's apology for its crime-woven past history during the Japanese chief executive's U.S. trip. There are not a few fair-minded personalities like Takashi Uemura not only in Japan but in other countries of the world.

Japan would be well advised to bear in mind that its bid to hide its past crimes would only lead it to further isolation and ruin.