Comfort women survivors receive copy of final judgment

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A. Introduction and Background of the Proceedings 

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• Breaking the history of silence
• The proceedings
• The common indictment and the application regarding state responsibility
• Notice to Japan and process for consideration of defense
• The Tokyo Tribunal as a continuation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Far East  (1946-1948)
• The accused

Tribunal judges and advisors

Tribunal prosecutors

B. Factual Findings

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• Description of the evidence received
• Development and operation of the "Comfort Women" System
• Institutionalization of the sexual slavery system
• Rape of Mapanique
• Characterization of the  military sexual slavery system
• Who the "Comfort Women" were

C.  Applicable law

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    Preliminary Legal Issues

• The principle of legality
• Due process
• Statute of limitations
• Head of state immunity

• Precedents for the concept of crimes against humanity
• Application of the threshold conditions of crimes against humanity
• Rape as a war crime
• Sexual slavery
• Essential elements of sexual slavery and the "Comfort System"
• Rape in the context of the Mapanique 
• Slavery vs. Forced Prostitution: correcting the legal (mis)characterization

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E. State Responsibility

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• Elements of state responsibility
• Japan´s initial violations of Treaty and Costumary Law
• Attributability of internationally wrongful acts to the State of Japan
• Continuing concealment of documents
• Continuing failure to make a full and genuine apology
• Continuing failure to prosecute and punish those criminally responsible
• Continuing failure to make official and fair compensation
• Continuing opposition to formal claims for reparations initiatied by survivors
• Failure to take measures to protect the integrity, well-being and dignity of the human persons
• Defenses to State responsibility
• Conclusion

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