A senior Chinese scholar has called for vigilance against the recent expansion and development of right-wing forces in Japan, which he called "tumors in Japanese society and a shame for Japan".

The Aug. 2 resolution on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II by the Japanese House is a major step back compared with a similar document adopted by the Japanese Congress a decade ago, said Li Zongyuan, deputy director of the Memorial Hall of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in Beijing.

After the World War II, Japanese right-wing groups were suppressed by the American occupation, and 70 percent of their organizations became inactive. But these groups have changed their tactics in an attempt to make a comeback, Li said.

In the past, the right-wing forces in Japan incited war and committed intolerable crimes, and since the end of the War World II, they have disrupted Japanese pacifism, said the scholar, who has engaged in the research of Sino-Japanese relations and Japanese right-wing politics for a long time.

"What the Japanese right-wing forces have done are severely hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and the peoples of other Asian nations, which has made Japan lose faith in the world and has been detrimental to relations between Japan and its neighboring countries, including China," he noted.

Li warned that the development of Japan's rightist politics is in a period of "fast expansion".

Outlining new characteristics of the development of Japanese right-wing forces, Li said, right-wing groups are well-organized, share the same goals, and are mutually infiltrated; more and more Japanese intellectuals are becoming rightists; companies and business groups are supporting the rightism; and an increasing number of politicians have joined rightist groups, he said.

Li called for a commensurate struggle against Japanese rightism, stressing, "We must not sit by and watch the rampant expansion of right-wing forces in Japan."

Source: Xinhua