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HCONRES 176 104th Congress House International Affairs Armed Forces and National Security Bacteriology Biological warfare Chemical warfare Classified defense information East Asia Government Operations and Politics Health Human experimentation in medicine Japan Medical records Official secrets Prisoners of war Reparations Torture Veterans' medical care War crimes World War II

Expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the maltreatment of United States military and civilian prisoners by the Japanese during World War II.

Introduced: May 10, 1996 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 14, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
May 13, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.
May 10, 1996
Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 10, 1996
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Calls for: (1) the Government of Japan to pay reparations and express formal regret to U.S. military and civilian prisoners of war held by the Japanese during World War II; and (2) relevant U.S. departments and agencies to declassify and release to the Department of Veterans Affairs and to the doctors of individuals who were subjected to experimentation by the Japanese all requested U.S. and Japanese records and documents relating to medical or bacteriological experimentation on such prisoners.

What's happening now May 14, 1996

Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

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