Hundreds of Chinese families seek wartime compensation from Japan

[Fukuoka]

Hundreds of Chinese families seek wartime compensation from Japan | China Daily Mail

 

[Nan Yang]

Hundreds of Chinese families seek wartime compensation from Japan | China Daily Mail

The total number of forced laborers under the Japanese is said to have exceeded one million [3], many of whom died due to appalling living conditions, lack of medical care, dangerous working conditions and abuse from guards. According to the Japanese military’s own record, nearly 25% of 140,000 Allied POWs perished while interned in Japanese prison camps where they were forced to work. [4] Of 27,000 American POWs 11,000 did not survive. [5]

In recent years, 1.4 million former Nazi forced labor victims were compensated through the German foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future” created in 2000. [6] The $5 billion foundation was a result of negotiations that stemmed from lawsuits filed by former slave and forced labor victims against German companies. The German government and German companies equally contributed to the foundation.

The history of Japanese forced labor has also been revisited in recent years. Since 1999, almost 60 Japanese companies that engaged in wartime forced labor, including such well-known companies as Mitsubishi and Mitsui, have been sued in U.S. courts by former Allied POWs seeking unpaid wages and proper compensation for damages. [8] Both the U.S. government and the Japanese government were heavily involved in these cases, in every instance supporting the contention of the defense that the Peace Treaty of 1951 had settled all POW claims. After four and a half years of pre-trial proceedings, the companies successfully had the courts declare that they too bore no legal responsibility to compensate. [9] After the dismissal of these cases, Japanese companies and the Japanese government failed to take any actions comparable to those taken by the Germans. They neither compensated individual victims nor acknowledged the historical fact of POW forced labor. Nor did the Japanese government initiate any educational projects to disseminate information on the history of POWs of the Japanese.


Troubling Legacy: World War II Forced Labor by American POWs of the Japanese :: JapanFocus

 

[third eye]

I wonder how many Chinese claimed or were paid compensation by the communist govt for the ' Great leap"

The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths. Estimates of the death toll range from 18 million to 45 million, with estimates by demographic specialists ranging from 18 million to 32.5 million. Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that "coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the very foundation of the Great Leap Forward" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history

Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Grand Historian]

I wonder how many Chinese claimed or were paid compensation by the communist govt for the ' Great leap"

The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths. Estimates of the death toll range from 18 million to 45 million, with estimates by demographic specialists ranging from 18 million to 32.5 million. Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that "coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the very foundation of the Great Leap Forward" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history

Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chinese bashers always bring up this up,this is about Imperial Japan not Communist China evils.

 

[third eye]

Chinese bashers always bring up this up,this is about Imperial Japan not Communist China evils.

Its about compensation for perceived wrongs

 

[Grand Historian]

Its about compensation for perceived wrongs

No, it isn't the Japanese atrocities and Communist wrongdoings are seperate.

Japanese intended to murder,pillage and rape while the Mao didn't plan to starve his people.

 

[third eye]

No, it isn't the Japanese atrocities and Communist wrongdoings are seperate.

Japanese intended to murder,pillage and rape while the Mao didn't plan to starve his people.

The intention is in the mind of the doer.

The compensation is claimed by victims - they suffered for no fault of theirs.

Its the same.

 

[Grand Historian]

The intention is in the mind of the doer.

The compensation is claimed by victims - they suffered for no fault of theirs.

Its the same.

No it isn't its comparing apples to oranges,this is about Japan not China under Mao.

 

[third eye]

OK, this is what I feel the Japanese will have to say to Chinese claims

 

[Grand Historian]

Japanese denying comfort women,Nanking massacre,Unit 731 etc are equivalent to Holocaust deniers.

 

[Beast]

Its about compensation for perceived wrongs

Indian government shall compensate kashmir torture victim first before you talk about others.

The Continued Silencing of Torture in Kashmir | Julia Meszaros

 

[sweetgrape]

I wonder how many Chinese claimed or were paid compensation by the communist govt for the ' Great leap"

The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths. Estimates of the death toll range from 18 million to 45 million, with estimates by demographic specialists ranging from 18 million to 32.5 million. Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that "coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the very foundation of the Great Leap Forward" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history

Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You know, China is a dictatorship country, how can our normal Chinese ask governent paying compensation for its fault, we don't have that guts and "right", you know?!
seems you are not on topic, "copy" you, I also wonder how many Indian claimed or were paid compensation by your "democratic" government for more than million children died from hunger、malnutrition and poor medical treatment? I think you also will not, because the "democratic" government are elected by your normal indian, not fault of your government, but your normal indian fault? right?

Whether we accuse our government of its fault, that's our internal business, I know you indian don't like our Chinese, I also not expect for that, you know the reason, I also know you indian like Japanese, the reason I also know, while judged the japanese war criminal of WWII, there was a indian judge, and he was the only one oppose puting death penality on these criminal, now many Japanese thank him, I heard that Japanese build a statue for him, I don't oppose you loving Japanese, because that's you business, you didn't hurted by him, but you here derail the topic, have to say, you are very disgusting.

If you want troll, I can give you more on you.