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Compensating Colonial Lepers, Slave Laborers and Hibakusha: Troubling Legacies and Evolving Standards of Postcolonial Justice in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jeff Kingston
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On Oct 25, 2005 a three-judge panel of the Tokyo District Court upheld a lawsuit filed by 25 leprosy (Hansen's disease) patients from Taiwan claiming compensation from the Japanese government for being forcibly segregated during Japanese colonial rule. On the same day, another panel of judges ruled against 117 South Korean leprosy patients seeking compensation who had also been quarantined during the colonial era.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 11 , November 2005 , e1
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References

[1] http://www.asahi.com/english/Heraldasahi/TKY200510260094.htmland http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20051026 TDY01003.html

[2] Japan Times 10/26/2005

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[6] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgibin/getartide.pl5?nn20050827a1.html

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[8] See Frank Upham's review essay, “Political Lackeys or Faithful Public Servants? Two Views of the Japanese Judiciary” in Law and Social Inquiry, 2005: 421-455.

[9] See Andrew Horvat and Gebhard Hielscher, eds. Sharing the Burden of the Past: Legacies of War in Europe, America and Asia, The Asia Foundation/Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Tokyo 2003). Also: http://www.dwworld.de/dw/article/0,2144,1757323,00.html

[10] See Underwood articles on Chinese forced labor at Japan Focus, including “Chinese Forced Labor, the Japanese Government and the Prospects for Redress”

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[12] NBR (Nov. 5,2005) cited with author's permission.

[13] See: http://search.hankooki.com/1 http://search.hankooki.com/2

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