Japan has inflicted untold misfortunes and suffering on the Korean people by invading Korea since long ago.

Recorded in the history of the Japanese invasion of Korea is the Imjin Patriotic War (1592-1598).

On April 13 1592, the Japanese aggressors committed a state-sponsored invasion of Korea by attacking the Pusan Fort. They perpetrated merciless massacres as soon as they set foot on the Korean soil.

In the fort, they killed even old people and women, dogs and cats at random, and decapitated more than 8 500 people.

Everywhere they went, the Japanese troops gouged out the eyes of Koreans and hanged their heads and cut their ears and noses and sent them to Japan.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ringleader of the invasion of Korea, said that a man had two ears but only one nose so he would “judge” how many Koreans were killed with the number of noses cut.

At this genocidal order, the Japanese beasts became hell-bent on the massacre of Koreans, saying that they should cut off the noses of more Koreans in order to get their “military exploits” appreciated and to rise to a high position.

According to records, they sent left ears and noses of more than 70 Korean soldiers cut in Chunchon of Kangwon Province in early winter of 1592, the first year of the war, to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and received a letter of appreciation from him. In July 1597, when they occupied Sachon, they cut off ears or noses of 38 717 Koreans and transported them to Japan in more than 10 large wooden barrels.

This resulted in the appearance of the nose tomb in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1597. The number of noses of Koreans buried in the place amounted to 214 752.

The tomb is a living proof of the brutality and cruelty peculiar to the Japanese aggressors.

As the Japanese aggressors had been used to taking delight in slaughtering human beings for their aggressive purposes, they enforced the sexual slavery system which cannot be found in any army of the world under the pretext of raising the morale of the “imperial army” and organized the devilish Unit 731 which specialized in bio-experiments on humans during the Second World War.

It is Japan that has left traces of massacres beyond human imagination at all places where it made aggressive moves and increased its wealth with the blood and sweat of other nations.

Today, it is still keen on becoming a military giant and overseas expansion without making an apology and reflection on its past crimes.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

The Korean people and the international community vividly remember Japan’s bloody past and are closely watching its present behaviour and will never tolerate them.