Table of Content

[Index]

Preface: Crime and Responsibility

Part I : Theories for Postwar Compensation

Introduction: Postwar Compensation -- Why Now?

1. Too Late?
2. Ideas in the Potsdam Declaration and Japanese Compensation
3. Distortion by the Cold War Structure
4. Factors Deterring Postwar Compensation
5. The Collapse of the Cold War Structure and Democratization in Asia
6. The Meaning of Postwar Compensation
7. Establishing Mutual Trust with Asian Neighbors

Chapter One: Arguments on Postwar Compensation

1. Arguments on Postwar Compensation
2. Has Everything Been Resolved by the Japan-Korea Treaty
3. History and Public opinion
   

Chapter Two: What Is Postwar Compensation?

1. War Responsibility and Postwar Responsibility
2. Reparations, Compensation and Claims
3. State Compensation and Postwar Compensation

Chapter Three: Assessment of Japanese Postwar Management

1. Domestic Postwar Management
2. Postwar Management toward the Outside
3. Why Japan Has Neglected Postwar Compensation

Chapter Four: The History of War Compensation and Foreign Cases

1. The History of Compensation
2. The German Case
3. The American Case
4. The Canadian Case

Chapter Five: Legal Grounds for Postwar Compensation

1. Compensation Deduced from the Potsdam Declaration
2. Compensation Deduced from the Constitution of Japan
3. Crimes against Humanity
4. Rights of Individuals for Compensation and Claims

Part II : Individuals Seeking Compensation

Chapter One: Koreans Left Behind in Sakhalin

1. Forced Relocation
2. A Responsibility to Resolve
3. Hardship After the War
4. Trials for Compensation Claims

Chapter Two: Atomic Bomb Survivors in Korea

1. Threefold Suffering of A-Bomb Survivors in Korea
2. Significance of the Son Jin-doo
3. Realization of Treatment in Japan and Thereafter
4. Solidarity with Japanese Citizen Movements

Chapter Three: Class-B and -C Korean War Criminals

Chapter Four: Koreans in the Japanese Imperial Army

1. Soldiers and Civilian Employees for the Military
2. The Movement of the South Korean Association of Bereaved Family of War Dead in the Pacific War

Chapter Five : Korean Military Comfort Women

Chapter Six : Victims in China and Taiwan

1. Forced Relocation of Chinese and the Hanaoka Incident
2. Former Japanese Soldiers in Taiwan

Chapter Seven : Voices from Asia and Oceania

1. The Philippines --Atrocities and Military Comfort Women
2. Malaysia --Romusha (laborers) in the Thai-Burma Railroad
3. Indonesia --Former Heiho (special recruits)
4. Palau --Teishintai (service corps)
5. Papua New Guinea --Massacre in Timbunke Village
6. Marshall Islands --Atrocities by the Japanese Military
7. The Aleutian Islands --Forced Relocation of Aleuts
8. Korean War-Disabled in Japan
9. Questions of Corporate Responsibility for Forced Labor

Part III : For the Realization of Postwar Compensation

1. Change in the government of Japan
2. Current Stage of the Issue of Postwar Compensation
3. International Developments Concerning Postwar Compensation
4. Future Tasks

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