The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan on March 18 confirmed and made public the results of the screening of the textbooks dealing with social subjects including geography and history for the senior high schools from 2017.

According to it, among 35 kinds of Japanese textbooks dealing with social subjects, Tok Islets were marked as "part of the territory of Japan" in 27 kinds of history textbooks and the description that "the military was involved in drafting sexual slaves" was deleted from most of the textbooks.

This means 69 percent of the textbooks dealt with Tok Islets two years back but 77 percent of them described the islets as "part of territory of Japan" at present. Consequently, distorted history that Tok Islets belong to Japan will be taught at most of senior high schools in Japan in the wake of primary and secondary schools.

The present chief executive of Japan has persistently tampered with history, tailoring the standard for screening textbooks and "teaching manuals" to the stand of right-wing forces after amending the basic law on education.

The Japanese government revised the "teaching manuals" for secondary and senior high schools for 2014 so that Tok Islets are described as part of the inalienable territory of Japan.

It set up a "Takeshima (Tok Islets) data room" at the Shimane Prefectural Office of Japan in a desperate bid to increase the awareness of "claim to Tok Islets" among Japanese.

It is leaving no means untried to implant the wrong picture of Tok Islets into the minds of the young Japanese.

For example, it brought out a fairy tale about the animal which was exterminated by Japanese while living in Tok Islets and organized a special lecture to convince them that Tok Islets belong to Japan.

Shimane Prefecture distributed among schools the map which wrongly marked the boundary of Japan between Ullung Island and Tok Islets.

The Japanese government's serious moves to make textbooks veer to the Right and distort history through them find their manifestation in its undisguised scenario to distort history such as denying the coercion involved in the sexual slavery after reaching "an agreement" on the issue of the sexual slavery with the south Korean puppet regime in December, 2015.

The Japanese reactionaries are absurd enough to falsify facts by teaching the students distorted history.

History can neither be altered nor rewritten.

Some historical materials discovered in Japan prove that the then Japan itself recognized Tok Islets as part of the territory of Korea.

The "complete map of Japan" drawn by the Staff Department of the Ministry of Army of Japan in 1877 was obtained and opened to public in Japan some years before.

The map dealt with the whole territory of Japan in detail but it did not mark Tok Islets.

Tok Islets were not marked in the area catalogue of the map done by the Department of Land Survey of Japan in 1899 on the scale of 1:200,000.

Many maps drawn till 1905 included Tok Islets in the territory of Korea.

The islets are an inalienable part of the territory of Korea unthinkable apart from the history of the Korean nation spanning 5000 years.

Japan should properly face up to the reality.

Gone are the days never to return when the Japanese imperialists could go reckless to grab others' territories and launch overseas aggression in the last century.

The Japanese reactionaries can never translate into reality their militarist scenario for establishing the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", which they failed to do in the past, by teaching the distorted history to the younger generation and thereby hurling them into overseas aggression and reinvasion of Korea.

They would be well advised to stop running amuck to grab others' territory, a daydream, but honestly redress its crime-woven past, to begin with.