calendar>>March 3. 2010 Juch 99
Japanese Reactionaries' Suppression of Conscientious Educator Denounced
Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- A woman teacher of a primary school in Arakawa Ward of Tokyo asserted that there should be no war, when lecturing the pupils on the historical fact of the forced labor committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against the Koreans in the period of World War II. The Japan regional education authorities made themselves busy, investigating the case and sending official documents to other schools of the ward to draw their attention to the matter.

Minju Joson Wednesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

This signifies violation of justice and human conscience by injustice and an outright challenge to them. Japan self-exposed that it is a dictatorial state ruthlessly trampling down the human rights, not a democratic state.

What is more serious is that Japan's criminal scheme for a war of overseas aggression was brought to light this time.

It is an important political goal of the Japanese reactionaries to instill the militarist idea for overseas aggression into the new generations and hurl them to the war for conquering other nations. No wonder the contents and policies for education of the students are consistent with the "superiority" of the Yamato nation and war admiration in Japan and on this basis, the tragic stories of Japan's past crimes are largely concealed and history is grossly distorted.

The same is the case with the issue of Tok Islets. The Japanese reactionaries marked Tok Islets as "Takeshima" in the textbooks and assert that they are "territories of Japan". They are infusing into the students the idea that the islets originally belonged to Japan and that they should take back the islets occupied by others, in a bid to let the new generations plunge into the war for overseas aggression.

It is a crime to teach falsity to the new generations and implant wrong idea and spirit into them.

The Japanese reactionaries and education authorities should immediately stop the criminal reckless act of deceiving students and teaching falsity to attain their criminal political purpose.

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