Damages suit by Allied POWs turned down

Seven former prisoners of war from four Allied powers walk down into the Tokyo District Court on Thursday Nov. 26 to hear a ruling on their $154,000 damages suit filed against the Japanese government for their sufferings during World War II internment in Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia. The court turned down the suit, filed on behalf of some 11,000 former POWs in Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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