Japan Has to Make Apology and Reparation for Crimes against Humanity

Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- Jo Hui Sung, senior researcher of the Institute for Japan Studies, contributed the fourth installment of his article revealing the crimes related to the sexual slavery committed by Japan to Rodong Sinmun Sunday.

The author of the article revealed the moves of the Japanese government to remove and conceal evidence of the crimes.

Before and after its defeat on August 15, 1945, the Japanese government ordered to burn all data. This order was aimed to evade the responsibility for the war crimes committed by the Japanese king and the state and to remove all the evidence of crimes related to extradition.

Among the data were those about the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. By incinerating the data about the state establishment and operation of sexual slavery system, Japan tried to conceal the hideous crimes against humanity.

But it was not possible to remove all data. There are testimonies made by assailants and victims and some documents survived incineration.

Today Japan is actively concealing data related to the crimes about sexual slavery.

Key criminals involved in the setting up and operation of the sexual slavery system for the Imperial Japanese Army keep mum, not confessing their crimes.

Now kept in the Defense Ministry, Police Agency, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Ministry of Finance of Japan are huge data related to the sexual slavery for the army which are strictly kept in secrecy.

While denying the opening of the documents, the present ruling quarters of Japan including Abe are trying to prevent the fact about the crimes related to the sexual slavery from being described in history textbooks.

The author cited detailed facts to prove that the crimes about the sexual slavery committed by Japan against the Korean women in the first half of the 20th century are hideous crimes against human morality, human ethics that have been valued through generations.

Japan has not made any apology and reparation and it still remains unpunished though it committed organized rape, gang rape and massacre of 200 000 Korean women and a great number of women from other Asian countries.

Prime Minister Abe and the authorities of the Japanese government and high-ranking officials of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have gone desperate in their moves to push the crimes about sexual slavery under the carpet and get rid of the state responsibilities for it.

Japan has to make thorough apology and reparation, bearing in mind that without holding responsibility for all the crimes against humanity including the crimes about sexual slavery in the past, it can not live as a full-fledged member of the international community. -0-