Japan’s use of forced labor during World War II was a “serious crime,” China Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said today, after a Chinese court accepted a lawsuit against two Japanese companies accused of the practice.
The Beijing No. 1 People’s Court agreed yesterday to hear a lawsuit brought by 40 former workers and their family members against Mitsubishi Materials Corp. and Nippon Coke & Engineering Co., the state-owned Global Times newspaper said.
The laborers and their families demanded 1 million yuan ($161,000) compensation for each victim as well as an open apology in both Chinese and Japanese newspapers, including the People’s Daily and Asahi Shimbun, according to the newspaper.
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Henry Sanderson, Bloomberg News via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1gQNo3n
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