Research on the Facts and Theories of War Responsibility of the State and War Redress

在1990年和之后，向法院提出了许多要求日本政府赔偿个人战争赔偿的诉讼。我们认为，造成这种局面的原因是，1989年1月，本应在东京国际战争法庭作为侵略战争的主权者受到起诉的裕仁天皇去世了，1989年12月，两位国家元首宣布俄美冷战结束。因此，在战时作为强征劳工、“慰安妇”或战犯而受到伤害、损害或侮辱的外国战争受害者，向日本政府提出赔偿责任的个人要求，将没有任何障碍。这是我们的理论。然而，日本政府极不愿意接受个人赔偿，因为它一直坚持赔偿和个人索赔问题最终应由《和平条约》或迄今达成的其他双边协定来解决。我们认为，日本的战争赔偿法律制度存在着违反宪法的双重标准的不公正。我们的结论是，日本国会应以德语“Wiedergutmachung”为目的，紧急制定《外国战争受难者特别战争赔偿法》。

In and after 1990, so many litigations to demand personal war redress to the Japanese Governmant have been brought into the court. We think the reason for this situation is that in January 1989 the Emperor Hirohito, who should have been prosecuted in the Tokyo International War Tribunal as the sovereign responsible for the war invasion, died, and that in December 1989 the Russo-American Cold War was announced by two Heads of the State to be ended. So there would be no obstacles for foreign war victims who got injured, damaged or insulted as forced laborers, "Comfort Women" or war criminals during the wartime to ask personally the Japanese Government the responsibility for war redress. This is our theory.The Japanese Government, however, has been extremely reluctant to acccept personal redress, since it has been insisting that compensation and problems of personal claims were finally resolved by the Peace Treaty or other bilateral agreements so far made. We think there is surely an unconstituionally double-standardized injustice in the war compensation law system in Japan. We have concluded that The Diet of Japan should legislate urgently the Special War Redress Law for Foreign War Victims for the purpose of "Wiedergutmachung" in German.