"Denying the painful history of the past does not make what happened disappear," said Kim Joo-Yong, professor in the Department of History and Culture, Wonkwang University, lambasting Japan's "historical denialists" for whitewashing its wartime atrocities like the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and the 1919 suppression of the March 1 Independence Movement on the Korean Peninsula.
Tokyo's failure to break free from its imperialist past threatens regional stability and saddles future generations with a heavy cost, he said.
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