Shao Yicheng, 82, a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits ruled on Friday, was forced to work without pay for a Japanese construction company during World War II. At a news conference, he called the decision unjust.
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TOKYO: Social stigma is preventing thousands of Japanese women who served occupying U.S. troops in official brothels from coming forward to seek compensation, a women's rights activist said Sa...
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TOKYO, April 27 — In two landmark rulings, Japan’s highest court on Friday rejected compensation claims filed by former wartime sex slaves and forced laborers from China but acknowledged that they had been coerced by the Japanese military or industry.
The decisions were handed down as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tried to head off a resolution on Japan’s wartime sex slav...
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Japanese court denies compensation to 2 former sex slaves
TOKYO — Japan's Supreme Court upheld a ruling today denying compensation to two Chinese women who were forced to work in military brothels during World War II.
Backing a Tokyo High Court ruling, the Supreme Court said that the women had no right to seek war compensation from Japan because of a 1972 agreement with China, ...
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SEOUL, April 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korean and Japanese scholars will resume joint research of the history shared by the neighbors in June, two years after such research was suspended, a South Korean scholar said Friday.
The second-term South Korea-Japan joint history research committee will convene a meeting on June 23 in Japan to discuss the future path of their activities, according to t...