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Hachiko
Mar 27, 2004, 14:23
NIIGATA (Kyodo) The Niigata District Court ordered the state and a Japanese company Friday to pay 88 million yen in compensation to Chinese who served as slave-laborers in Japan during World War II.

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Plaintiffs who sued the state and a private company for damages over forced labor during World War II hold up a banner Friday proclaiming victory at the Niigata District Court.

Japan Times (http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040327a1.htm)