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Japanese military comfort women victims lost their second lawsuit against the Japanese government for damages filed in a domestic court. Controversy is expected as this is the opposite of the ruling that the court first admitted to the Japanese government's responsibility in January.
This is Jung Yoon-sik.
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The 15th Division of the Civil Agreement of the Seoul Central District Court rejected the plaintiffs' claims in a lawsuit filed against the Japanese government by 20 comfort women victims and bereaved families, including late Ye-nam Kwak and Grandmother Kim Bok-dong.
Your Excellency is a judgment that you have not met the lawsuit requirements, and is in fact a judgment of defeat of the plaintiff.
The Ministry of Justice ruled that "according to the precedents of the International Court of Justice, the state immunity is recognized for the actions of foreign troops or state agencies cooperating with them during armed conflict."
Therefore, he said, "The Japanese government's forced mobilization of comfort women may be illegal, but it does not lose its sovereign nature."
It ruled that the Japanese government should apply a state immunity that states that one country's sovereign acts cannot be judged in another country.
[Grandmother Yong-soo Lee/Japanese military comfort woman victim: It's so embarrassing. It's so absurd. The International Court of Justice is here! I will definitely go. I have nothing to say except these words.]
Today's (21st) ruling is the opposite of the first acknowledgment of the Japanese government's responsibility in a lawsuit for damages filed by 12 victims, including the late Chun-hee Bae, in the 34th Division of the Civil Agreement of the Seoul Central District Court in January.
At the time, the court sentenced "the Japanese government should pay 100 million won per person to grandmothers," saying, "The state immunity cannot be applied to illegal activities in Japan." The ruling of the first trial has been confirmed by sticking to