Japan's move violated human rights principles: attorney
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/03
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Lin Yu-li is one of three Taiwanese men planning to sue the Japanese authorities. (By Central News Agency)
Yang Fu-cheng (楊馥成), 97, Lin Yu-li (林余立), 92, and Hsu Hua-chi (許華杞), 85, were born during Taiwan’s Japanese colonial period from 1895 to 1945.
They will take their case to a district court in Osaka because they feel the Japanese authorities acted unfairly in taking away their citizenship, the Central News Agency reported. Their attorney said nobody had ever presented such a case before.
After Japan was forced to withdraw from Taiwan in 1945, the two countries concluded the Treaty of San Francisco in 1952, while Japan’s Supreme Court ruled 10 years later that the treaty meant that Taiwanese-born people had lost their Japanese nationality. [FULL STORY]
