Hashimoto, co-head of the Japan Restoration Party, said there is no evidence proving that the Japanese military and government abducted women through violence and threatening. Co-Head Ishihara also said it is the principle of history that the military has close relations with prostitution. He even said there is nothing wrong in Hashimoto's remarks.

This is impudent and shameless political chicanery aimed to deny the sexual slavery system run by the Japanese government and military by abducting women from Korea and other Asian countries.

It was an organized crime sponsored by the Japanese state.

The chief culprits of the crime were the Japanese king who took charge of all state power including judicature, administration and legislation under the constitution of the Japanese empire as well as the government and military that moved under the directive and by the ratification of the king.

The Ministry of Ground Force set up and run the sexual slavery system for the army at the approval and instructions of the king.

According to publications "king's army and Korean 'comfort women'" released in Japan, the government and the military laid out a plan to provide one sexual slave to 29 army soldiers and made public various relevant ordinances and documents for the realization of the plan.

It was ascertained by wartime telegrams and documents, a number of victims of various countries, testimonies by witnesses and confession by soldiers that women were abducted from all Asian countries by the order of the military.

A telegram sent by the commander of the Japanese army in Taiwan to Tojo on March 12, 1942 spelled out, "I hereby request you to allow the dispatch of the following three persons selected by the military police as managers of 'comfort stations' to respond to the request by the military headquarters in the southern region to send 50 'comfort women' to Brunei."

A document on the recruit of employees of military "comfort stations" that was sent to the army stationed in China by the Japanese Ministry of Ground Force in 1938 contained the approval seal of Vice-Minister of Ground Force Umezu.

This order was given to the army units till July 1945 right before Japan's defeat.

All units that were hurled to aggression war including the 12th, 35th, 38th and 59th divisions abducted women as sexual slaves at the instructions of the military commanders, and the headquarters carried them whenever there was strategic movement.

Japan's act of abducting and forcibly walking away women were top violence crime which combined physical and mental coercion as evidenced by requisition, arrest, blackmail, threat and swindling.

200 000 Korean women were taken to China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Okinawa, Hokkaido, Guam and other occupation and stationing areas by the Japanese army and 146 000 of the women lost their lives in alien land.

This clearly proves that the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army was a hideous abduction and unethical crime in which the government, military, the government-general in Korea and police under it were involved by the order and at the instructions of the Japanese king.

However, the Japanese right-wing conservative forces are denying the coercive nature of the sexual slavery system. This is aimed to conceal Japan's disgusting face as the world's biggest abduction country and evade the past liquidation at any cost.

They insisted on the necessity of the sexual slavery system, claiming "Japan has been unfairly singled out for practices common among other armies during wartime."

This is the height of sophism that can be made only by brutes in human form.

The sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army is the hideous crime against humanity to which no statute of limitations is applicable as it was committed in an organized and open way with the direct involvement of the government and the military.

A final report on organized rape, sexual slavery and similar practices during armed conflicts that was adopted at the UN Human Rights Sub-Commission in August 1993 defined the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese army as a war crime and demanded the Japanese government enact a relevant law for the settlement of the issue.

But the Japanese right-wing conservative forces have persistently denied the coercive nature of the sexual slavery to evade the redemption of the past and bury into oblivion Japan's crime-woven past.

It is nearly a century since the occurrence of the sexual slavery issue and nearly two decades since the issue was taken up at the international arena but the issue has not seen a solution. This is attributable to Japan's shamelessness and moral vulgarity.

The sexual slavery has brought dishonor and shame to Japan.

Japan can never cover up the crime of the sexual slavery system nor evade the responsibility for it.

This is a serious political issue and urgent historical task facing the Japanese authorities.