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HRES 382 108th Congress House International Affairs Commerce Compensation (Law) Compensation for victims of crime East Asia Ex-prisoners of war Families Forced labor Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign corporations History Japan Labor and Employment Law Prison labor Prisoners of war Reparations Survivors' benefits War crimes World War II

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning war crimes committed by Japan during World War II and the liability of Japanese companies to former prisoners-of-war used by such companies as slave labor during World War II.

Introduced: September 30, 2003 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Sep 30, 2003
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Calls on the Government of Japan to formally acknowledge and apologize for its World War II war crimes and for Japanese companies that used prisoners of war as slave labor during World War II to compensate those former prisoners (or their survivors) for their labor and for any brutality the companies inflicted.

What's happening now September 30, 2003

Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.

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