It is reported that this is the first batch of compensation paid by Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan to Shandong workers, which marks a significant new progress in the lawsuit against China by Japanese captive workers.
Liu Huanxin, executive director of China Victims Labor Association, said: "We have worked hard for 30 years, and today we finally see the dawn of safeguarding rights! These 30 years of hard work have not been in vain. "
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Over the years, almost all the surviving Jinan laborers have been sent away:
As the son of Japanese workers who were victimized in that year, Han Jianping has been committed to finding Japanese workers who were victimized in Japan that year and interceding for them. For more than 20 years, he has been insisting on such a complicated job. According to Han Jianping, the most victims in Japan are Shandong people, 9 177, accounting for 1/4, of which Jinan has more than 600 people. Han Jianping's father, Han Ruihua, is one of these workers.
The young adults captured in Shandong were first sent to the concentration camp of Xinhua Hospital in Jinan, and then loaded on the train for Qingdao. The former site of Xinhua Hospital concentration camp is on Dikou Road, which is the former Jinan Kindergarten Normal School.
From the age of sixteen to twenty-three, he pulled a rickshaw and became a guerrilla (member) at the age of twenty-four. He was captured by the Japanese and went to a charcoal mine in Hokkaido ... Han Jianping's father died of cancer in his forties. Referring to his father's experience, Han Jianping choked and said, "I just want to get justice for the older generation who had the same experience as his father." This is his spiritual motivation for insisting on finding workers in China for many years.
Over the years, Han Jianping has collected a whole cabinet of information. In the past 20 years, Han Jianping has traveled all over Shandong, and most of the workers have passed away. He can only offer a bunch of flowers to the old man's grave to express his condolences.
Because his home is in Jinan, Han Jianping has been paying attention to the labor survivors in Jinan. "For more than 20 years, I have traveled to almost all counties and cities in Jinan and found more than 20 survivors. As long as I know that there are survivors who have passed away, I will send flowers, and almost all of them have been sent away in these years. " Han Jianping said.