A session of the House of Representatives of New Jersey State Congress on March 26 unanimously voted for a resolution demanding the Japanese government accept "historical responsibility" for the sexual slavery system run by the Imperial Japanese Army and give proper education of it.

The Kyoto Prefectural Assembly of Japan on the same day passed a written request demanding the government make apology and reparation to women who were forced into the sexual slavery by the Japanese imperialists during World War II.

This is a clear proof of the strong demand for redemption of the past crimes not only in Japan but worldwide.

The crimes related to the sexual slavery committed by the Japanese imperialists during World War II were hideous crimes against humanity unprecedented in history in the light of their cruelty and barbarity.

The Japanese imperialists took away lots of Asian women as sexual slaves and inflicted the whole gamut of evil acts on them.

200,000 Korean women were subject to unbearable mental and physical pain and disgrace and met grievous deaths. They were deprived of their rights as women to form family and have children.

Japan has to make apology and reparation for its crimes related to sexual slavery. This is an urgent task to be solved in a thorough-going way in order to help Asians who suffered at the hands of the Japanese imperialists give vent to their pent-up grudge and to prevent the repetition of the disgraceful history of the 20th century.

Japan, however, has categorically evaded apology and reparation for the monstrous crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists.

Prime Minister Abe said there is no evidence proving the coercive nature of the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army and it is an issue to be discussed by historians in a quiet room, not a political and diplomatic issue.

An adviser to Abe for diplomacy and policy called Kono statement which admitted the Japanese imperialists' crimes related to the sexual slavery a diplomatic gaff and remarked that there has not existed the issue of sexual slavery in the education field.

This is a blatant challenge to the just efforts of the international community to force Japan to pay for the blood-stained past crimes and put an end to all kinds of acts against humanity.

Lurking behind Japan's shameless act of denying history is its intention to cover up its dirty nature as a war criminal state and the world's worst human rights abuser and make its blood-stained past repeat itself.

The Japanese reactionaries' mean and shameless moves are intolerable crimes against humanity that deserve denunciation by the international community. Japan will face ruin should it keep evading the admittance, apology and reparation for its past crimes of aggression, going against the trend of the times.