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China protests Japan court rule on forced laborers
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-05-25 16:35
A high court in Japan on Monday denied redress to a group of 15 Chinese men
forced to work in Japanese coal mines during World War II in the first ruling
amid a series of lawsuits former Chinese forced laborers have filed in Japan.
The All China Lawyers Association, China Foundation for Human Rights
Development and China Society for the Study of the War against Japanese
Aggression voiced their strong remonstration against what they called an
"irresponsible" ruling.
The Fukuoka High Court rejected the demand for compensation because the
statute of limitations expired for both the state and the company, thus
overturning the Fukuoka District Court ruling in April 2002 that ordered Mitsui
Mining to pay 10 million yen for each forced worker.
In the Fukuoka High Court suit, the 15 Chinese men, now
in their 70s and 80s, demanded 23 million yen each in compensation be paid by
the state and the company, as well as apologies be published in newspapers in
the year 2000.
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