Chinese court confiscates 280,000 ton Japanese cargo ship to pay for Japan's war crimes

[Fukuoka]

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Shanghai municipal government announced on the 20th, the 19th Shanghai Maritime Court in Zhejiang province detained a port shipping giant Mitsui OSK Lines of Japan all a boat, because the company did not respond to a compensation order issued prior to the hospital.

Kyodo News reported on April 20, the move appears to mark the first time the Japanese company's assets were seized in litigation involving compensation of wartime.

In 2007, the hospital asked Mitsui OSK pay about 190 million yuan to the Chinese one family, as compensation for its predecessor Datong Maritime Corporation's failure to fulfill its contractual obligations.

In 1936, the outbreak of a war of aggression ago, Datong to China in Granville Shipping Co., Ltd. shipping company leased two ships, the contract period of one year. However, the two ships never returned, and later sank in the sea.

 

[Fukuoka]

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