His remarks clearly show the international community the morally vulgar and true colors of shameless Japan as they are nothing but a cynical ploy to keep the history of Japan's aggression and plunder in Korea buried into oblivion.

It is the undeniable historical fact that Japan's past history is woven with unprecedented aggression, massacre and plunder.

In the last century the Japanese imperialists illegally occupied Korea after faking up "Ulsa (1905) Five-point Treaty", "Jongmi Seven-Point Treaty" and "Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty".

They took 8.4 million Koreans as bullet shields in the shambles of war and slave laborers, killing more than one million Koreans during the colonial rule over Korea.

They also abducted at least 200,000 Korean women and forced them into the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. The Japanese aggressors plundered Korea of resources running into astronomical figures. Not content with this, they even deprived the Koreans of their names and the standard time of the country.

The evidence proving their shuddering crimes has been fully backed up by the testimonies made by the victims and the academic circle.

If the Japs have a shred of conscience and morality, they should admit the past crimes and apologize to the Korean nation and the international community.

The Japanese reactionaries are, however, blatantly challenging the justice of mankind by denying the past crimes and embellishing them, instead of making an apology and reparation.

From the outset of the year the prime minister, foreign minister and members of House of Representatives from the Liberal Party of Japan spat out a string of rigmaroles one after another that Japan remains unchanged in its stand that there is no evidence proving the involvement of the army and government authorities in forcible drafting and victims of sexual slavery were prostitutes.

Japan became so immoral and shameless in its bid to evade the responsibility for the hideous crimes against humanity as to publish the textbooks which openly denied and embellished its past crimes on the ridiculous premise that post-war generations should not be obliged to make apology."

Militarism is stirred up among the Japanese people due to the government and ultra-right forces' vicious distortion of history and unethical discrimination and suppression of the Koreans in Japan, victims of the past crimes, are getting ever more pronounced.

Moreover, the Japanese reactionaries are desperately resorting to militarist moves for territory expansion, groundlessly making a "claim to Tok Islets."

This reveals Japan's sinister scenario to realize its old dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."

The international community is following with high vigilance the Japanese reactionaries' moves for revival of militarism and reinvasion.

They should properly understand the watchful stand and attitude of the international community towards Japan and the changed balance of forces in Asia, in particular, drop their day dream and make an apology and reparation for their past crimes.

Japan will have a rosy future only when it makes a sincere apology and honest reparation.