Korean A-bomb survivor wins law suit

NAGASAKI, Japan - Lee Kang Young (R) poses outside the Nagasaki District Court on Dec. 26 with one of his supporters who shows off a banner saying Lee has won his law suit. The court ordered the state to pay Lee, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 1.03 million yen in health care allowances that it failed to give him after he left Japan following a brief stay for treatment in 1994.

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