High court rejects damages suit against Japan by Dutch POWs

TOKYO, Japan - Gerard Jungslager (L), one of eight former Dutch prisoners of war who filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government to seek compensation for ill treatment at Japanese prison camps during World War II, speaks at a press conference Oct. 11 in Tokyo following the Tokyo High Court's refusal of their claim. The high court upheld the Tokyo District Court's November 1998 decision to reject the suit, which sought a total of some 20 million yen in damages.

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