日本最高法院驳回中国劳工和慰安妇的索赔

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JAPAN COURT REJECTS CHINESE WARTIME CLAIMS
         
        　　日本最高法院驳回中国劳工和慰安妇索赔
         
        　　日本最高法院昨日驳回两起关于中国国民在二战期间被迫充当劳工和慰安妇的索赔。与此同时，正在华盛顿访问的日本首相安倍晋三也正因为慰安妇问题而大伤脑筋。
         
        　　在第一起案件中，日本最高法院推翻了广岛高等法院2004年做出的一项具有里程碑意义的判决。广岛高等法院裁定，日本建筑企业“西松建设”向两名前中国劳工和三名已故劳工的亲属支付2750万日元（合23.1万美元）。这些劳工起诉称，在战争期间，自己被迫在恶劣条件下在广岛的水电厂建设工地工作。广岛高等法院的这项裁决，当时标志着1995年以来中国国民在日本提出的一系列索赔中的最大胜利，而其余大多数索赔都已被驳回。
         
        　　日本最高法院审判长中川了滋表示，根据1972年《中日联合声明》，中国的个人丧失了向日本、日本人民或企业索赔的权利。根据联合声明，中国政府放弃了向日本索取战争赔款的权利。
         
        　　Japan's Supreme Court yesterday threw out two claims involving compensation for Chinese nationals forced to serve as labourers and prostitutes during the second world war, just as Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, wrestled with the issue of wartime sex slaves during his visit to Washington.
         
        　　In the first case, the court overturned a landmark 2004 ruling by the Hiroshima high court that ordered Nishimatsu Construction to pay Y27.5m to two former labourers and the relatives of three deceased workers who claimed they were forced to work in severe conditions at a hydroelectric power plant construction site in Hiroshima prefecture during the war. The high court ruling had marked the biggest victory among a wave of compensation claims ? most of which have been dismissed ? filed in Japan since 1995 by Chinese nationals.
         
        　　But Ryoji Nakagawa, presiding justice, said that under the 1972 Japan-China joint communiqué, Chinese individuals lost their right to claim war compensation from Japan, the Japanese people or companies. Under the communiqué, Beijing renounced any right to claim war reparations from Japan.