Wartime sex slaves' compensation bid rejected
An appeal by four elderly Chinese women forced to become sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two was rejected today by a court in Japan that said the current government wasn’t responsible for the atrocities committed by wartime rulers.
The four women, aged from 77 to 81, from China’s Shanxi province, filed the original suit in 1995, seeking 20 million yen (around €140,000) in damages and an official apology. They said they were repeatedly raped by Japanese soldiers posted in China during the war.
