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

在1990年及之后，向日本政府提起了许多要求个人战争赔偿的诉讼。我们认为，造成这种情况的原因是，今年1月，本应作为对战争侵略负责的主权国家在东京国际战争法庭被起诉的皇帝·裕仁去世，12月，两国元首宣布结束俄美冷战。因此，外国战争受害者在战争期间作为强迫劳工、“慰安妇”或战犯而受伤、损坏或受到侮辱时，不会有任何障碍，可以亲自向日本政府要求战争赔偿责任。这是我们的理论。然而，日本政府一直非常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通过和平条约或迄今达成的其他双边协议得到解决。我们认为，日本的战争赔偿法制度肯定存在违宪的双重标准化的不公正。我们的结论是，日本国会应紧急立法外国战争受害者特别战争补偿法，以便在德语中使用“Wiedergutmachung”。

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.