South Korea warned Thursday Japan will face an angry backlash from neighbors and the international communist if the country rewrites its modern history with a revisionist view.

A controversial history review office of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party held its first meeting on Tuesday as it reportedly seeks to review an array of modern historical events.

The move is raising concerns that Japan may rewrite its modern history of World War II aggression and atrocities as the meeting will reportedly review the International Military Tribunal for the Far East where leaders of the imperialist Japan were convicted of waging war. 

The Nanking Massacre and Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during WWII are also reportedly among the items to be reviewed.

"There shouldn't be any revisionist trend in verification organizations like this when the South Korea-Japan relations are moving forward in a certain direction," Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho June-Hyuck said in a regular briefing. 

"If it moves in the (revisionist) direction, there will be resistance from neighbors including us and the international community," Cho noted. 

South Korea is "closely watching" related developments in Japan's political community, he also said. 

Asked how the current South Korea-Japan negotiations over the sex slavery issue are going, Cho said "our stance is that it should be settled as soon as possible." (Yonhap)