And this is a great State crime, for which a precedent cannot be found. Nevertheless, the Government of Japan is trying to deceive the international community with cajolery and tricks and bury its past grave crime in the black curtain of history forever, instead of recognizing its State and legal responsibility for it. It is a mockery of human justice and conscience that should never be tolerated. Setting the issue of such crimes committed by Japan in the past is a pressing task before the international community in its process of terminating, once and for all, all sorts of human rights violations, including outrageous abuses against women and children throughout the world. Certainly it is true that it was conveyed to some individual victims in the Philippines and the Republic of Korea.
Moral responsibility is different from legal responsibility.
They should be proved by practical actions, not by a few hypocritical words. As long as legal responsibility is not recognized, such an apology is nothing but empty talk if it is made by the Emperor instead of the Prime Minister. Japan is trying to escape from its legal responsibility while saying it is making an apology. Therefore, the Government of Japan should duly recognize its legal responsibility in this matter and provide compensation on a State basis. Notwithstanding, the Government of Japan has no scruples in shirking its responsibility for compensation.