In re World War II Era Japanese Forced Labor Litigation and Obsticles to International Human Rights Claims in U.S. Courts

Abstract

In recent years, numerous Korean and Chinese victims of Japan's World War II forced labor camps have pursued civil claims against Japanese corporations in the United States. A wave of civil claims involving such forced labor arose with the 1999 passage of California Code of Civil Procedure (CaICCP) section 354.6. CaICCP section 354.6 created a cause of action for WWII-era victims of slave or forced labor and extended the statute of limitations for such actions to 2010.2