Compensating Colonial Lepers, Slave Laborers and Hibakusha
Troubling Legacies and Evolving Standards of Postcolonial Justice in Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2131834 |
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| Authors | John Kingston (0000-0003-3869-9788, corresponding author), Jeff Kingston |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466005035692 |
| OpenAlex | W4410181556 |
| Language | EN |
On Oct 25, 2005 a three-judge panel of the Tokyo District Court upheld a lawsuit filed by 25 leprosy (Hansen's disease) patients from Taiwan claiming compensation from the Japanese government for being forcibly segregated during Japanese colonial rule. On the same day, another panel of judges ruled against 117 South Korean leprosy patients seeking compensation who had also been quarantined during the colonial era
Colonialism · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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