(4) Japanese Firm Refused to Compensate WWII Slaves

[CND, 02/21/96] The Japanese Construction giant Kajima Corp. rejected the
demand to compensate Chinese slave laborers during World War II, Chicago
Tribune reported.  Eleven former laborers filed a lawsuit against 
Kajima last June. They were among nearly 40,000 Chinese that were brought to
Japan during the war and sent to mines, construction sites and factories.
Many of them had died of tortures and inclement working enviroment. Kajima 
said that it was the government not the company that should take the
blame. In a 1948 war tribunal, three Kajima officials were sentenced to 
death and another to life imprisonment, but all four of them were released
by 1955. (Jingdong XU, Bo XIONG)
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