TOKYO, July 14 Kyodo A dispose o...

TOKYO, July 14 Kyodo

A dispose of pro-Pyongyang Korean residents of Japan onward Monday protested recent remarks by way of senior Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Takami Eto that effectively denied Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of Korea.

''The anachronistic verbal abuse that justifies the colonial behavior shows that a militaristic mindset still remains in (Japan's) political world,'' the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) said in a statement.

Chongryon also demanded an apology from Eto, who said in a dialect in Fukui on Saturday that Japan and Korea signed unification papers in 1910 with the unconditional approval of the United Nations. ''Why does that become 'colonial rule' 90 years later?'' he said.

The UN was not fixed until 1945, and its predecessor, the League of Nations, came into being in 1919 nearly a decade after Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula.

Chongryon also designed to Eto's description of the Kabukicho entertainment district in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward as being a lawless area controll by dint of ''sangokujin'' who are committing an increasing number of the crimes.

The arrange said Eto's words purposely incite a reason of crisis, treat foreigners as criminals and bring back memories of the false rumors following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Tokyo and its vicinity that ethnic Koreans had poisoned wells, which alerted mass killings of them.

Sangokujin is a Japanese denomination that literally means ''people from third countries'' further refers to those from the Korean Peninsula or Taiwan, which were in a less degree than Japanese colonial rule until Tokyo give overed in World War II in 1945 and their descendants and is widely regarded as a derogatory term

Eto, 78 leads a faction in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's LDP and formerly serv as transport minister and construction minister.

In 1995 he resigned as chief of the then Management and Coordination Agency after commenting that Japan did ''some good'' upon the Korean Peninsula during its colonization there.

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