According to foreign media reports, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology approved the deletion and correction of the expressions of “comfort women for the Japanese army” and “forced drafting” in textbooks on the grounds of the “written answer” decided at a cabinet ministers’ meeting.

To be exact, it would delete “for the Japanese army” from the expression of “comfort women for the Japanese army” and amend “forced drafting” to “drafting”.

These are not a simple correction of words, but a wicked history distortion designed to deny the direct involvement of the former Japanese army in the crime and brand the victims of its sex slavery crime as “prostitutes”.

Japan has long made every attempt to shirk its responsibility for the sex slavery crime.

A concentrated expression is the desperate attempt at completely deleting the expressions of “comfort women for the Japanese army” and “forced drafting” from textbooks.

History textbooks embellishing and justifying the past crimes of aggression are now rife in the country, shocking the public.

Those which dealt with the crimes Japan had committed in the past objectively to some extent are shoved aside under the pressure of the ultra-rightist forces and companies publishing such textbooks go bankrupt.

Referring to the ministry’s approval for the correction of expressions in textbooks, the chief of the Cabinet Secretariat said it is very important in the meaning that the children receive “proper education”.

His reckless remarks have a thread of connection with those of the successive ultra-rightist politicians that the sex slavery was needed at the time for maintaining discipline in the army.

Unparalleled impudence and shamelessness are characteristic of the moral baseness of this country.

Why then has Japan so obstinately insisted on history distortion even by invoking state power, while evading state responsibility for the history of bloody crimes in every way?

Underlying its desperate attempt is the wild ambition of revanchism to repeat the past history of aggression and crimes by disciplining all its public as well as the younger generations.

The crime Japan had committed in the past century by mobilizing the government and military power to draft many women from different countries, including 200 000 Korean women, into the battlefields, and force sex slavery on them, can by no means be covered up. And its history distortion will only trigger stronger denunciation, criticism and political and diplomatic isolation from the international community.

To deny history is as good as shooting itself in the foot. Clear is the future of Japan which is on a headlong rush towards military resurgence full of the wild revanchist ambition.

Japan is advised to bear in mind the bloody lesson of the past century.