Under this law "special benefits" will be provided to ex-Japanese POWs detained in Siberia of the former Soviet Union and other places after the Second World War.

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

Japan is busy enacting the law to pay "special benefits" to the above-said survivors, while persistently shunning apology and reparation for such hideous crimes against humanity as sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. This attitude of Japan once again lays bare its brazen-faced nature and moral vulgarity.

The Japanese imperialists forcibly took away and kidnapped more than 8.4 million Koreans in the past to force them to serve as cannon fodder for a war of aggression or do mediaeval slave labor in coal mines, construction sites of military facilities and other places. Then they massacred many of them under the pretext of "keeping secrets".

The survivors of the above-said sexual slavery said with bitter resentment that they could not get to sleep at the thought of what they experienced in the past, adding they could not die, their eyes closed, before having their grudge settled.

Nevertheless, the Japanese reactionaries are busy paying compensation to their compatriots, turning a deaf ear to the voices of those survivors. This is an unpardonable insult to the Korean people who suffered horrible disasters at the hands of the Japanese imperialists and a mockery of justice.

Japan owes too much to the Korean nation to count. It is, therefore, a historic responsibility and a legal and moral duty for Japan to make an apology and reparation for the hideous crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past.

Those countries which plunged humankind into disasters of the Second World War are now turning over a new leaf for peace after breaking with their past history. Japan would be well advised to face up to the trend of the present times and opt for settling its past crimes as early as possible.