Mr. Hiroshi Oyama 1-8-3 Sakuragoaka, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156, JAPAN Fax: 81-3-3420-8442  

• The case was filed at the Tokyo District Court on August 7, 1995. This is a major postwar compensation case, and the final hearing had taken place on December 2, 1998. It is expected that the verdict will be issued by the end of March 1999. The verdict on this case will become a precedent and certainly affect other compensation cases.
• It is important to demonstrate international concerns and support, such as ours, in a timely manner. If possible, letters of support should be sent out as soon as possible, or at latest by the end of January 1999.
• You can draft your own letter or add your remarks in the form letter. We urge you to duplicate this information sheet and the attached form letter and let your friends sign and send the letter.

In total there are ten plaintiffs.

1) During the Nanjing Massacre Li Xiuying (§õ ¨q ­^ ) resisted a Japanese soldier who tried to rape her and other soldiers slashed her. With 37 wounds she almost died and had a miscarriage.

2) Suspected as spies Jing Lanzhi ¡] ·q Äõ ªÛ ¡^ and her husband Zhu Zhiying¡] ¦¶ ¤§ ¬Õ ¡^ were arrested and tortured. She was released but her husband was sent to Unit 731 and killed as a vivisection experiment victim.

3) Wang Ibing (¤ý ¥ç §L ) : His father, Wang Yaoxuan (¤ý Ä£°a ) was arrested by Kenpei Tai
(Japanese military police). He was sent to Unit 731 and was killed there. Mr. Yutaka Mio, an ex-Kenpei, who took the witness stand, had sent Wang Yaoxuan to Unit 731. Wang Ibing's five siblings are also plaintiffs.

4) Another plaintiff is Wang Huimin (¤ý ¼z ±Ó ). Her elder brother Wang Dongshen (¤ýªF ¤É ) was arrested together with Wang Yaoxuan. Both were sent to Unit 731 and killed there.

5) Gao Xiongfei ¡] °ª ºµ ­¸ ) lost his right arm and his mother during the indiscriminate bombing of non-combatant population areas.

This lawsuit is supported by the Society to Support the Demands of Chinese War Victims (SuoPei) . Address: 6th floor, Lapaz building, 2-33-10, Minamiohtsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan .

• Forced Relocation to Japan and Forced Labor.
• "Comfort Women".
• Pingdingshan Incident ¡] ¥­ ³» ¤s ¨Æ ¥ó¡^ ¡G 3,000 people were massacred in Liaoning Province (¿ñ ¹ç ¬Ù ). The pretext for this slaughter was reprisal for cooperating with guerrillas of the resistance movement.
• Japan's Abandoned Poison Gas and Bombs.