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Demonstration in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - People march in Hong Kong on June 1, 2014, to commemorate Beijing's military crackdown on a student-led protest in 1989, calling for redress of what Beijing describes as an already settled upheaval. Thousands of protesters participated in the demonstration ahead of the 25th anniversary on June 4.

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S. Korea court orders Japan firm to redress

GWANGJU, South Korea - Yang Gum Dok (L) reacts in Gwangju, South Korea, on Nov. 1, 2013, after the Gwangju District Court ruled in favor of four Korean women, including Yang, who were forcibly conscripted as laborers during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The court ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay them 150 million won (about $141,510) each in compensation.

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S. Korea court orders Japan firm to redress

GWANGJU, South Korea - Yang Gum Dok (R) reacts in Gwangju, South Korea, on Nov. 1, 2013, after the Gwangju District Court ruled in favor of four Korean women, including Yang, who were forcibly conscripted as laborers during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The court ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay them 150 million won (about $141,510) each in compensation.

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Application deadline for Minamata redress

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - People visit the city office of Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on July 31, 2012, to apply for state redress under a special law for potential patients of Minamata mercury poisoning disease. The deadline for the application will expire later in the day despite a petition by more than 100,000 people to extend the time limit.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A man (L) receives a health checkup in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KUMAMOTO, Japan - People visit a hospital to receive a health checkup in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A doctor examines a man in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.

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S. Koreans to sue 2 Japan companies over wartime labor

SEOUL, South Korea - Lawyers and members of a citizens group seeking compensation for South Korean victims of wartime forced labor in Japan hold a press conference in Seoul on June 4, 2012. The "Pacific War Victims' Compensation Promotion Group" said it will soon file a lawsuit in South Korea against Nippon Steel Corp. and Toyama city-based machinery maker Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. seeking redress.

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Redress for acquitted man

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Toshikazu Sugaya (C), who was acquitted in a retrial for a 1990 murder, walks into the Utsunomiya District Court in Tochigi Prefecture on Jan. 13, 2011. The court told him the same day that he will receive around 80 million yen in compensation for his wrongful conviction, the amount that he had requested.

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New int'l rules adopted on redress for damage caused by GM crops

NAGOYA, Japan - Parties gathered at biological diversity talks, the fifth meeting on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, in the central Japan city of Nagoya adopt on Oct. 15, 2010, a supplement to the biosafety protocol that sets new redress rules for damage caused to ecosystems by the movements of genetically modified crops.

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New rules on redress for damage caused by GM crops

NAGOYA, Japan - Parties gathered at biological diversity talks, the fifth meeting on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, in the central Japan city of Nagoya adopt on Oct. 15, 2010, a supplement to the biosafety protocol that sets new redress rules for damage caused to ecosystems by the movements of genetically modified crops.

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Wrongly accused Sugaya seeks state redress

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Toshikazu Sugaya, who was acquitted of killing a 4-year-old girl, speaks at a press conference in Tochigi Prefecture on Sept. 22, 2010 after submitting documents seeking state compensation. Sugaya is seeking about 80 million yen for the 17 and a half years he spent in detention due to being wrongfully convicted.

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Appeals court rejects redress demand for Korean forced labor

KANAZAWA, Japan - A South Korean woman who was forced to work at Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp.'s plant in Toyama during World War II speaks to reporters in Kanazawa on March 8, 2010, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court rejected an appeal by a group of 23 South Korean former forced laborers and their relatives to seek compensation from the Japanese government and the company.

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Nishimatsu agrees on redress fund with former forced laborers

TOKYO, Japan - Shao Yicheng, one of five Chinese victims of forced labor during World War II, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2009, after Nishimatsu Construction Co. agreed to set up a 250 million yen trust fund to compensate the five and 360 former co-workers.

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Nishimatsu agrees on redress fund with former forced laborers

TOKYO, Japan - Shao Yicheng (L), one of five Chinese victims of forced labor during World War II, shakes hands with a lawyer representing Nishimatsu Construction Co. during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2009, after Nishimatsu agreed to set up a 250 million yen trust fund to compensate the five and 360 former co-workers.

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Man wrongly convicted seeks 100 mil. yen in damages

TOYAMA, Japan - Hiroshi Yanagihara, 41, who was cleared of charges of rape and attempted rape in a retrial in 2007, attends a press conference in Toyama on May 14 after filing a lawsuit seeking about 100 million yen in damages from authorities under the 1947 state redress law.

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Tunnel workers sue firms for lung disease redress

SAPPORO, Japan - Former tunnel construction workers from Hokkaido speak at a press conference in Sapporo on Nov. 27 as they filed a lawsuit with a local court demanding compensation for lung disease they contracted while working on state-ordered projects. More than 100 former tunnel construction workers filed lawsuits with courts across Japan.

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Aggrieved woman removed from venue of China leaders' meeting

BEIJING, China - A woman holding a piece of paper apparently with the intention of lodging a petition with the nation's leaders is removed by a police officer on Oct. 16 from the vicinity of the Great Hall of the People, the venue of the ongoing 17th Chinese Communist Party Congress. Chinese citizens with grievances against the government often seek redress by making a direct petition to a senior government official.

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High court rejects redress appeal of WWII forced laborers from China

SAPPORO, Japan - Chinese plaintiffs and their supporters hold a protest rally in Sapporo on June 28 after the Sapporo High Court dismissed their appeal seeking compensation from the Japanese government and six companies for forcing them during World War II to work at coal mines and construction sites in Hokkaido.

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High court rejects redress appeal of WWII forced laborers from China

SAPPORO, Japan - Chinese plaintiffs and their lawyers arrive at the Sapporo High Court on June 28 to attend a trial on their appeal seeking compensation from the Japanese government and six companies for forcing them during World War II to work at coal mines and construction sites in Hokkaido.

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High court orders NHK redress over sex-slave 'trial' program

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs rejoice in front of the Tokyo High Court on Jan. 29 after the court ordered Japan Broadcasting Corp. and two TV production companies to pay 2 million yen in compensation to a women's rights group over a 2001 television program on Japan's wartime sex slavery.

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High court raises redress ordered to state over Yokota base

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs, who filed a lawsuit against the government over flight noise at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, celebrate in front of the Tokyo High Court in Tokyo on Nov. 30 after the court ruled that the government must pay them 3.25 billion yen in compensation.

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Korean residents lose appeal to seek disability benefits

OSAKA, Japan - Hearing-impaired Korean residents of Japan head to the Osaka High Court on Oct. 27. The court threw out an appeal filed by seven Korean residents who sought redress for being refused disability pensions even after a nationality clause was removed from the National Pension Law.

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Chinese forced laborer denied redress from Japanese gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Liu Huanxin holds up a photo of his deceased father Liu Lianren during a press conference in Tokyo on June 23 after the Tokyo High Court rejected his father's demand for Japan's compensation for his forced labor during World War II.

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Bangladeshi man denies link to al-Qaida

TOKYO, Japan - Islam Mohamed Himu, a Bangladeshi businessman , speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 27. He sought human rights redress with a lawyers' group over what he called his ordeal in being linked with a suspected senior member of the al-Qaida terrorist network, denying the accusations against him. ''Anywhere I go, I am falsely branded as an al-Qaida member but I am not,'' a tearful Himu told Japanese and international media. after filing a complaint with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.

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(2)High court denies redress to Chinese forced laborers

FUKUOKA, Japan - Zhang Baoheng (R), 81, fights back tears May 24 during a news conference in Fukuoka after the Fukuoka High Court denied him and 14 other Chinese men redress from the state and Mitsui Mining Co. for forcing them to work in Japanese coal mines during World War II. Liu Qian, 82, another plaintiff, is seated at center.

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(1)High court denies redress to Chinese forced laborers

FUKUOKA, Japan - Liu Qian (2nd from L), 82, and Zhang Baoheng (3rd from L), 81, stand before supporters May 24 outside the Fukuoka High Court. The court denied redress from the state and Mitsui Mining Co. to them and 13 other Chinese men forced to work in Japanese coal mines during World War II in the first-ever ruling at the high court level on a series of lawsuits former Chinese forced laborers have filed across Japan.

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Court rejects WWII forced labor suit by 43 Chinese

SAPPORO, Japan - Zhao Zongren, a Chinese national, speaks to reporters in front of the Sapporo District Court in Hokkaido on March 23 after the court rejected an 860 million yen damages suit against the Japanese government and six companies filed by 43 Chinese nationals, including Zhao, who were forced to work at coal mines and construction sites in Hokkaido during World War II. The court said state reparation does not apply to cases occurring before the 1947 creation of the State Redress Law.

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Koizumi admits state fault over emigrations to Dominican Republic

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks in reply to opposition questions at a House of Councillors Budget Committee on March 10. He admitted state fault in the government's 1950s policy to promote emigration to the Dominican Republic and indicated redress over a suit filed by Japanese emigrants to the Caribbean country.

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Korean ex-leprosy patients seek redress for quarantine

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Lawyer Naoko Kunimune (2nd from R) hands applications with a health and welfare ministry official on behalf of 28 former leprosy patients in South Korea for compensation for being forcibly put in sanitariums when Korea was under the Japanese colonial rule.

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Ibaraki begins accepting applications for poison gas redress

KAMISU, Japan - A resident (R) of Kamisu town in Ibaraki Prefecture, one of 30 locals to have suffered from arsenic poisoning after drinking water from local wells, applies for a state package June 30 to cover medical costs related to health problems believed caused by poison gas abandoned by Japan's former military at the end of World War II.

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High court orders gov't to redress radish sprout growers

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Fueki (R), representing the Japan kaiware (radish sprouts) association, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 21 after the Tokyo High Court ordered the state to payy some 16.9 million yen in compensation to the growers of white radish sprouts for branding the vegetable as a likely cause of a fatal outbreak of food poisoning caused by the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria in 1996.

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Saitama ordered to redress parents of slain student

SAITAMA, Japan - Kenichi and Kyoko Ino, whose daughter Shiori (pictured in the frame) was stalked and murdered in 1999 in Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, despite filing a complaint with prefectural police, walk to the Saitama District Court on Feb. 26. The court ordered Saitama Prefecture to pay 5.5 million yen in damages to the parents because it had ''betrayed'' the girl's trust in the incident.

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Courts ask state, firms to compensate all 20 CJD plaintiffs

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs in a suit demanding compensation for the victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) enter the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 22, carrying photos of those who have died of the disease. The Tokyo and Otsu district courts recommended the state and companies sued by (CJD) victims jointly pay 60 million yen, on average, in redress to each of the 20 plaintiffs.

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Gov't, leprosy patients sign basic redress accord

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi (L) shakes hands with Kazumi Sogano, representaive of current and former leprosy patients, at the health ministry in Tokyo on July 23 after signing a basic accord under which the government will compensate them for past forced segregation. The accord paved the way for the state to pay 30 billion yen in redress to some 2,000 patients who have sued the state in the Kumamoto, Okayama and Tokyo district courts since 1998.

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Koizumi to discuss Ehime Maru redress with Bush

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) talks with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on June 15. In the talks, Koizumi promised to ask U.S. President George W. Bush to deal sincerely with compensation demands over the February collision between the Japanese high school training ship Ehime Maru and U.S. nuclear submarine Greenville off Hawaii.

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Osaka court orders redress for Korean A-bomb survivor

OSAKA, Japan - Kwak Kwi Hun, 76, a Korean survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, bows in thanks to his supporters June 1 after the Osaka District Court ordered the Osaka prefectural government to pay some 170,000 yen to him in compensation for stopping his medical allowances after he left Japan for home.

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Daiwa Bank execs ordered to redress losses at N.Y. branch

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the head office of Daiwa Bank in Osaka on Sept. 20. The Osaka District Court the same day ordered Daiwa Bank's executives to pay the bank $775 million in compensation for losses incurred by the bank from unauthorized bond deals at its New York branch. Plaintiffs accused the bank's management of failing to take appropriate actions to prevent former New York branch trader Toshihide Iguchi from engaging in unauthorized U.S. Treasury bond trading over 11 years from 1984. Iguchi was convicted in the United States in 1996 and jailed.

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High court upholds denial of redress to Koreans

A supporter of 3 Korean plaintiffs puts up Dec. 21 a banner informing a lost case after the Nagoya High Court's Kanazawa branch upheld a lower court rejection of a demand by the plaintiffs who served as forced laborers during World War II that a Japanese machine tool maker pay them unpaid wages. The banner reads ''The darkness of Japan further deepened.''

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Chinese forced laborer denied redress from Japanese gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Liu Huanxin holds up a photo of his deceased father Liu Lianren during a press conference in Tokyo on June 23 after the Tokyo High Court rejected his father's demand for Japan's compensation for his forced labor during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Korean woman demands redress for WWII forced labor in Japan

Choi Gi Sun from South Korea gives her account of what she describes as forced labor at a Japanese company during World War II during a gathering at the National Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2015. She urged the Japanese government to show conscience and pay compensation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Civic group demands state redress for civilian victims in WWII

Chisako Sugiyama (in wheelchair), who was wounded in the bombing of Nagoya during World War II, attends a civic group meeting calling for the state to give compensation to civilian victims of air raids in the war and their families, in Tokyo on July 14, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. indicts 3 over MRI Ponzi scheme targeting Japanese

A victim of an alleged Ponzi scheme targeting Japanese, operated by Las Vegas-based investment firm MRI International Inc., and lawyers representing a group of the victims attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 9, 2015, after the U.S. Justice Department indicted three senior MRI officials. The lawyers said the indictment was "a big step" toward redress. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filipino "comfort women" call for Japan emperor's help in seeking redress

Isabelita Vinuya, 84, president of the Filipino comfort women group Malaya Lolas (Free Grandmothers), speaks in a rally on Jan. 29, 2016 in front of the Japanese embassy in the Manila, seeking help from visiting Japanese Emperor Akihito for their demand for an official apology and compensation from the Japanese government. The Japanese imperial couple are in the Philippines for a five-day visit until the following day to mark the 60th anniversary of the normalization of Philippine-Japan relations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filipino "comfort women" call for Japan emperor's help in seeking redress

Eight Filipino women, who claimed to have suffered sexual abuse from Japanese soldiers during World War II, hold a rally in front of the Japanese embassy in the capital Manila on Jan. 29, 2016 to appeal for help from visiting Japanese Emperor Akihito. The women, all in their 80s, demand an official apology and compensation from the Japanese government, and inclusion in Japan's historical accounts and textbooks of the wartime sexual slavery issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa plaintiffs hold banners in Naha

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking apology and compensation from the state for physical, mental and financial damages caused by the 1945 Battle of Okinawa hold a banner stating "Every life is equal" and "Redress should be granted to all civilian victims, who have been left unattended," in Naha, Japan, on Sept. 30, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bangladeshi man denies link to al-Qaida

TOKYO, Japan - Islam Mohamed Himu, a Bangladeshi businessman , speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 27. He sought human rights redress with a lawyers' group over what he called his ordeal in being linked with a suspected senior member of the al-Qaida terrorist network, denying the accusations against him. ''Anywhere I go, I am falsely branded as an al-Qaida member but I am not,'' a tearful Himu told Japanese and international media. after filing a complaint with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations. (Kyodo)

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High court rejects redress appeal of WWII forced laborers from C

SAPPORO, Japan - Chinese plaintiffs and their supporters hold a protest rally in Sapporo on June 28 after the Sapporo High Court dismissed their appeal seeking compensation from the Japanese government and six companies for forcing them during World War II to work at coal mines and construction sites in Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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High court rejects redress appeal of WWII forced laborers from C

SAPPORO, Japan - Chinese plaintiffs and their lawyers arrive at the Sapporo High Court on June 28 to attend a trial on their appeal seeking compensation from the Japanese government and six companies for forcing them during World War II to work at coal mines and construction sites in Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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Man wrongly convicted seeks 100 mil. yen in damages

TOYAMA, Japan - Hiroshi Yanagihara, 41, who was cleared of charges of rape and attempted rape in a retrial in 2007, attends a press conference in Toyama on May 14 after filing a lawsuit seeking about 100 million yen in damages from authorities under the 1947 state redress law. (Kyodo)