It was not the first one. Similar statues were already built in California and Michigan of the U.S.

This shows what a bitter pain the fascist empire in the East in the past left in the hearts of mankind and how earnest demand the world people have to have the past crimes settled, Rodong Sinmun Thursday says in a commentary.

It goes on:

Now all the countries of the world feel hatred to Japan's attitude towards the past crimes, sexual slavery, in particular. It is because the Japanese imperialists provided women as expendables for war like munitions on the basis of abnormal sophism that it was necessary to satisfy soldiers' sexual demand to maintain combat capability of the army. Moreover, the Japanese reactionaries resort to a sleight of hand to cover up the truth behind the group rape committed under the patronage of the state, and to evade the settlement of the past.

It is all the more serious because the chief executive and the ruling party of Japan take the lead in distorting history.

Distortion of history has been the state policy since the emergence of the present government of Japan.

Practically, the ruling quarters of Japan take the lead in evading the past crimes and social, media and educational fields join in history-distorting in unity and the whole society of Japan has deeply plunged in turbid waters of ultra-nationalism and revanchism.

Japan should bear in mind that its way-out is not reinvasion but the settlement of the past.

The more desperately the Japanese reactionaries distort and deny its crime-woven history which can never be pardoned through generations, the more "girl's statues for peace" will appear in many parts of the world in denunciation of their behaviors.