Most war orphans were adopted and became culturally Chinese before returning to Japan as adults after the two countries normalized relations in 1972. It was the second ruling on war orphans. Last year, the Osaka District Court rejected similar demands filed by 32 war orphans,louboutin, saying there was not sufficient evidence that the government was negligent. But the plaintiffs still broke out in applause as a supporter rushed out of the courtroom to tell them the verdict.

 

 

"Finally I'm liberated from being a war orphan,franklin marshall," she told reporters.

 

He also said the government's vocational training and job-hunting services for returning orphans were poor, despite its "legal obligation to help them achieve self-reliance five years after repatriation."
Thousands of Japanese children were abandoned in China when the Japanese occupiers were defeated in 1945 and their parents either were killed or fled.

 

War orphans,moncler, who were Japanese children abandoned in China after the WWII, raise their hands to cheer as a supporter(C) shows a banner reading, "Winning Suit" outside of the Kobe district court,abercrombie france, western Japan. A Japanese court for the first time ordered the state to compensate orphans left behind in China after World War II,abercrombie and fitch, saying the government had failed to help them.   Dec.3 - A Japanese court for the first time ordered the state to compensate orphans left behind in China after World War II,abercrombie, saying the government had failed to help them. He ordered the government to pay a total of 468 million yen (US$4 million) to 61 of the 65 aging plaintiffs. The sum was well below the former war orphans' demands for a total of 2.145 billion yen.

 

 

"I'm very happy. I can finally be a grandma who can give at least 10,christian louboutin,000 yen or so as a gift to a grandchild entering high school," said Mitsuko Miyajima,abercrombie and fitch, who was abandoned in China.

 

"The government will decide after thoroughly discussing the matter with related government offices and agencies and examining the ruling,abercrombie paris," chief government spokesman Yasuhisa Shiozaki told a news conference. "The government bears a significant political responsibility to rescue war orphans,abercrombie and fitch paris," said presiding Judge Hitoshi Hashizume of the Kobe District Court in western Japan.

 

 

 

Hisafumi Kitahara, chief of the welfare ministry's section in charge of war orphans, acknowledged: "It was a severe ruling for the government."

 

The government has yet to decide whether it will appeal.

 

 

The court rejected the damages claims of four orphans because the statute of limitations had expired -- a frequent explanation by courts when dismissing lawsuits filed by Chinese and Korean victims of Japanese wartime atrocities. The judge said the government "illegally posed obstacles to their repatriation" by forbidding war orphans from returning unless their Japanese families took them in.

 

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