According to the indictment, Japan is mercilessly trampling underfoot the rights of the working masses under the signboard of "material prosperity" and "rule of law."

During the general elections in 2014, the turnout of voters was only 52% and an opinion poll found that more than 40% of the voters supported no political party. The people's nonconfidence in politics, the highest in the world, is a testimony to the political system of Japan, where privileged circles cut a wide swathe.

Japan empowered law-enforcement organs to oversee the people's ideas and restrict and violate the freedom of speech and expression by laws and regulations that run counter to the Constitution.

In Japan which pursues anti-social labor policies, violations of the human rights such as overworking death, power harassment, wage gap and unemployment, are rampant and the people's right to survival is being threatened.

38% of the working population are part-time workers and Internet cafes are turned into shelters for the destitute people.

A handful of wealthy people, numbering 40, possess assets valued at 15.4 trillion yen, whereas the "working poor" living on the earnings under the poverty line number 17 million and the number of poor households reached 1.46 million in 2012. The differential in the yearly income between the employers and employees was 100 times at the maximum and 44 times on average in the fiscal year of 2014, typical examples of the phenomenon of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

The working masses have to pay not only taxes and insurance but other miscellaneous levies by the authorities.

In Japan, 24,025 persons committed suicide in 2015 alone, 66 persons a day on average.

The indictment says that in "advanced" Japan, the women, children, elderly and disabled, the most vulnerable strata in society, are victims of all social evils.

Women accounted for 70% of the part-time workers and the children, who are denied access to nurseries, numbered 1~3 million as of March 2016.

About 90,000 cases of child abuse were reported in the period between March 2014 and late March 2015. The number of ill-treated children grew more than seven times in the last 15 years.

The sexual assault against children, reported in 2015, numbered 1 938 cases. Teachers' ill-treatment of students and students' violence against teachers totaled 224,540 cases in the academic year of 2015. Juvenile crimes, officially registered in 2014 alone, numbered 48 361.

The rate of the elderly living under the poverty line is 34.3%; 10.47 million persons, or one-third of the aged population, are living with such small supplementary allowances that they are unable to get a medical check-up, let alone enjoy the benefits of rest home and other facilities.

This situation has given rise to the social problem of increasing the rate of crimes committed by the elderly; the criminal cases involving the elderly aged over 65 numbered more than 23,600 in the first half of 2015, according to the statistics published by the Police Agency, far exceeding the number of crimes committed by the youth and children in the same period.

Japan is the desert of human rights where racial discrimination and contempt for other nations are deep-seated, the indictment says, adding:

The Ainus, indigenous inhabitants of Japan, had settled in and around Hokkaido. Owing to the assimilation policy pursued by the successive governments there now remain about 24,000, a small proportion of which are estimated to be able to speak the Ainu fluently. This is because many of them decided to conceal their identity in fear of unequal treatment.

Under the Foreigner Internship System, Japan accepts, on an annual basis, about 100 000 foreign workers. This system, characterized by poor working conditions, overtime labor and discriminatory wages, is castigated as a hotbed of modern-day slave labor and corruption by international human rights watchdogs.

The majority of illegal immigrants in Japan, totaling 200,000, are women engaged in the entertainment industry. As there exists no legislation prohibiting human trafficking and criminal organizations work hand in glove with government organs, brothels of foreign women are scattered throughout the country.

Japan's hostility towards the Koreans resident in Japan is the epitome of national chauvinism, the indictment points out, and goes on:

The Japan authorities defined Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) as an institution to which the Act for the Prevention of Sabotage is applicable, though it is a legitimate organization of the DPRK's overseas citizens that respects the laws of Japan and does not interfere in its internal affairs. They crack down upon and vilify Chongryon, keeping its affiliates and their members under constant surveillance and shadowing and plotting against them.

They are denying the citizenship of Koreans resident in Japan: they treat as a common noun the word "Korea" in the Nationality column of the foreigners' registration card, and dub the legitimate permanent residents as stateless, as part of its attempt to naturalize them.

On account of this citizenship issue they have deprived those Korean residents of their political rights. Worse still, they discriminate severely against them in their economic and cultural activities, especially in such realms as employment, school enrolment, residence and marriage, pension and health insurance.

For unjustifiable excuses and conditions, the Japanese authorities disallow the re-entry of Korean residents after a visit to their homeland, hampering such fundamental humanitarian activities as meeting relatives and visiting their birthplaces and ancestral graves.

They had the subsidies for the Koreans' schools left at the discretion of autonomous bodies. And they impose taxes on the donations to the Koreans' schools from Koreans. They intentionally excluded these schools from the list for the higher education support system, which had been enforced on April 1, 2010, thereby wreaking havoc on their educational environment and impeding the building of their material foundations.

The above facts give a glimpse of Japan's deplorable human rights situation, showing that its crime-ridden history continues, the indictment says, concluding:

On the international arena Japan makes much ado about other countries' "human rights issue." This is a foolish, cunning trick to bury its heinous crimes into oblivion and cover up its own human rights situation.