Hanaoka Incident

Japanese: 花岡事件 - はなおかじけん

A Chinese worker rebellion and its suppression at the end of the Pacific War. It occurred on the night of June 30, 1945, at the Kashimagumi Hanaoka Branch Office in Hanaoka Town, Akita Prefecture (now Odate City). 986 Chinese were forcibly taken to the Nakayama dormitory of the branch office, where they were working on rerouting the Hanaoka River in preparation for the expansion of the Hanaoka Mine. Heavy labor, food shortages, and abuse caused many deaths, and the Chinese workers rebelled, but were suppressed by the military police and the Japanese military. Twelve people suspected of being the ringleaders were sentenced to prison terms and other sentences, and the Japanese responsible parties were tried at the Tokyo Trials and given severe penalties up to and including death by hanging, but their sentences were later reduced and all were released. The death toll for Chinese people reached 418 between August 1944 and November 1945. [Postwar compensation lawsuit] In 1984, survivors of the incident began negotiations with Kajima, and in 1990 Kajima apologized and issued a joint statement with the victims, but in 1995, a representative group of 11 victims filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court seeking an apology and compensation. The plaintiffs' claim was dismissed by the district court, but a settlement was reached in November 2000 at the Tokyo High Court, the higher court, and Kajima agreed to donate a 500 million yen fund to the Red Cross of China as an expression of its condolences and other feelings for all the victims (986 people).
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Japanese:

太平洋戦争末期の中国人労働者の反乱蜂起とその鎮圧事件。1945年６月30日夜，秋田県花岡町（現，大館市）の鹿島組花岡出張所で発生。986人の中国人が強制連行で同出張所の中山寮に収容され，花岡鉱山拡張準備のため花岡川の水路変更工事にあたっていた。重労働，食糧不足，虐待などで死者が相次ぎ，中国人労働者が蜂起したが憲兵隊，在郷軍人団らによって鎮圧された。首謀者と目された12人が懲役刑などの判決を受け，日本側の責任者は東京裁判にかけられ絞首刑以下の厳刑を科されたが，のち減刑されて全員釈放。なお中国人の死者は1944年８月から1945年11月までで418人にのぼった。〔戦後補償訴訟〕　1984年に事件生存者が鹿島との交渉を始め，1990年には鹿島が謝罪して被害者との共同声明を出したが，1995年に被害者11人が代表となり，謝罪と賠償を求めて東京地裁に提訴。地裁では原告の請求は却下されたが，上級審の東京高裁で2000年11月に和解が成立し，鹿島は被害者全員（986人）への慰霊などの念の表明として，中国紅十字会に５億円の基金を寄託することになった。
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