Former POWs win legal victory in California court.A California court has ruled in favor of a group of former POWs, giving them their first major legal victory in their struggle for recognition and compensation for enslavement en·slave tr.v. en·slaved, en·slav·ing, en·slaves To make into or as if into a slave. en·slave  ment n. by private Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details. during WWII WWIIabbr. World War II WWII World War Two . Orange County Superior Court Judge William F. McDonald's ruling, the first substantive ruling for the POW cases pending in state court, comes down strongly in support of the POWs' claims and indicates that the cases will continue to move forward to trial. The ruling, issued October 19, applies to three specific cases -- two against Mitsubishi and one against Mitsui. However, since Judge McDonald has been assigned as the trial judge for all the American POW cases brought in California state courts, the decision potentially has broader reach. The U.S. State A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and Department and the Department of Justice have also opposed the veterans, arguing that the 1951 peace treaty with Japan waived the claims. In his decision, Judge McDonald asserted the right of the court to hear the POWs' claims. Thousands of Americans who were forced into slave labor by Japanese companies during WWII have been seeking compensation for their injuries for many years. These former POWs, all now in their seventies and eighties, survived months of forced labor, beatings, and starvation starvation, condition in which deprivation of food has forced the body to feed on itself. Causes are famine, fasting, malnutrition, or abnormalities of the mucosal lining of the digestive system. in Japanese-owned mines, factories, and shipyards after being captured. Their Japanese "employers" never paid them for their labor. |
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