Minju Joson Wednesday in a commentary observes in this regard:

What Norman Mineta uttered concerning the issue of Japan's redemption of its past reflected not his personal view but the unanimous will of the broad international community.

In the past the Japanese imperialists not only massacred people by all sorts of brutal methods baffling human imagination wherever they occupied and drove many people into battlefields and slave labor sites, taking so many human lives.

It was something unprecedented in the world war history that a state directly organized and commanded hideous crimes against humanity by using government and military power.

That was why Japan should duly admit such crimes and take state measures to redress its past crimes.

Japan's image is very miserable in the international arena as it has behaved so meanly without an iota of human conscience and morality.

Many countries in the world are not willing to be on good terms with Japan which is morally unsound and degenerate and it stands increasingly isolated diplomatically.

Japan's liquidation of its past is a commitment which should be fulfilled not for others but for its future.

The more desperate efforts of Japan to evade the responsibility for its past crimes would make its position more difficult, warns the commentary.