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August 2002 Tokyo Court Ruling on Compensation to Chinese Germ Warfare Victimes

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Unit 731 engaged in biological warfare

Chinese plaintiffs denounce the Tokyo District Court's rejection of their compensation claims

The Asahi Shimbun, August 28,2002

But the Tokyo District Court says compensation to Chinese victims is out of the question. A Japanese court Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that the notorious Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army conducted germ warfare on Chinese civilians during World War II. But the same court rejected compensation claims by 180 victims of the biological experiments.

The Tokyo District Court ruled that Unit 731 violated international law during the war but said Japan's responsibility for its wartime actions had been settled with the 1978 signing of the Japan-China Peace and Friendship Treaty.The 180 plaintiffs were either bereaved family members of individuals believed to have been killed by the germ warfare in China between 1940 and 1942 or residents who suffered in the biological attacks.