Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hypocritical remarks on Monday should once again alert the region against the efforts of Japan, which has been hijacked by right-wingers, to roll back history and relive a militaristic dream, says a Xinhua News Agency commentary.

There should be no place in the world to honor war criminals. Yet Abe and Japanese right-wing officials recently visited a shrine in Tokyo that honors 14 Class-A World War II criminals and then insisted the visit was justifiable.

Abe talks about "world peace", yet he pushes for military buildup and the revision of Japan's pacifist Constitution, written after WWII to restrain militaristic Japan from committing the atrocities in Asian countries again.