yongyang, June 13 (KCNA) — Japan has recently got more vicious in its moves to distort history, irritating its neighboring countries.
According to report, Japan is going to update the exhibition boards at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum within 2026. What merits attention is that it is trying to delete the word “massacre” in the board dealing with the Nanjing Massacre and write the words “Nanjing Incident” in it.
The Nanjing Massacre is a horrible crime the Imperial Japanese Army committed by massacring more than 300 000 people in the region between December and January 1938 during their aggression on China. It has been deeply recognized by the world people as the greatest tragedy in the 20th century.
This atrocity in Nanjing was defined as “massacre” even in the decision of the Far Eastern Military Tribunal, held to judge Japan’s aggression war crimes, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) registered it as the Memory of the World Regional Register.
However, Japan is making desperate efforts to describe as a trifling “incident” such hideous past crime that can never be concealed or distorted. The fact shows to what extent the neo-militarists’ moves to distort history have reached.
As well known, the Japanese imperialists killed more than one million people in Korea alone and forcibly drafted more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged people for battle sites of aggression and slave labor sites.
In particular, they abducted and drafted 200 000 Korean women for the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. Such atrocity is the hideous state-sponsored crime unprecedented in the history of wars.
But, the Japanese politicians imposingly organized what is called “Society for New History Textbook Reform” long ago to cover up the reality and distort history.
Moreover, they adopted a decision of the Cabinet meeting that considers “improper” such expressions referring to Japan’s past crimes as “forcible conscription” and “comfort women for the Imperial Japanese Army”, claiming that teaching the history of aggression as it is means “self-tormenting outlook on history”.
Under this decision, the Japanese textbooks do not mention about the massacres committed by the Imperial Japanese Army during their occupation of Korea and neighboring countries and the death toll, and the victims of the sexual slavery are insulted in those textbooks as “prostitutes” and “volunteers for money”.
The expression “aggression” had gradually disappeared in textbooks as Japan’s aggression upon Asian countries in the past began to be described with such sophistic expression as “liberation of Asia”, and at present the phrase “aggression” was totally erased.
The past crimes of Japan, which left incurable wounds to the Korean people and neighboring countries in Asia, are now being distorted in all aspects.
Then, is it right to think what the Japanese government intends while so desperately trying to distort the truth of history, which can never be concealed, is to merely deny its past crimes and evade making apology and settlement?
No.
In fact, the “Self-Defense Forces” of Japan have completed all preparations for overseas aggression and is now emerging the most dangerous aggression forces in the region, advocating “threat from outside”.
Owing to Japan, an emergency is being created in the Asia-Pacific region, a situation where there will be nothing unusual even if a war breaks out at once.
What is most important for Japan at this time is to prepare the younger generation to be those in direct charge of war and those who are engaged in it.
Herein lies the reason why Japan persistently clings to infiltrating wrong view on history through exhibition and curriculum.
Japan should be mindful that the more desperate efforts it makes to distort history, the earlier such action will bring its self-destruction. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2026.06.13.)
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