The chief researcher of the Sejong Institute of south Korea at a meeting called on the U.S., Japan and the present regime to make a switchover in their policy to the direction of reconciliation and peace from that of confrontation and war.

The joint representative of the National Network of the Japan-South Korea People's Solidarity said that it is quite unreasonable for Japanese Prime Minister Abe to issue the "statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII".

The representative of Japan's civic organization called for checking the strategy of "restoring Asia" that meets the interests of the U.S., and the Japanese and south Korean authorities' moves following it.