(LEAD) Seoul urges Japan's repentance after discovery of new victims lists

(ATTN: UPDATES in paras 7-8 with ministry official's remarks)

SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Yonhap) -- Japan should be fully aware of its misdeeds during its imperialistic period, South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday, following the discovery of fresh records on Korean victims during Japan's colonial rule.

The South Korean Embassy in Japan recently found a few dozen lists containing the identities of South Koreans victimized in a nationwide independence movement in 1919 and in Japan's massacre of Koreans after the 1923 earthquake in Kanto, Japan.