Japan top court rejects wartime Chinese damage lawsuit 　

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In 2004, the Hiroshima High Court ordered Nishimatsu to pay a total of 230,000 US dollars to the five Chinese.

But Nshimatsu did not accept the ruling and appealed to the Supreme Court.

A Nishimatsu official called the ruling an appropriate decision.

The Japanese government has acknowledged that many people suffered as forced laborers, but it insists that war reparations have been settled by post-war treaties.

Later on Friday, the top court also turned down the compensation demands of two Chinese women who were forced to be sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during the World War Two. The court said the demands had been settled under a postwar agreement.