After being qualified as a lawyer, Onodera Toshitaka has represented Filipinos in Japanese human rights cases and Korean comfort women cases. Judging from his work experience, it is natural for him to represent the victims of the China war against the Japanese government.
From 65438 to 0994, Mr. Onodera participated in a lawyer investigation team of China judicial system and set foot in China for the first time. During this trip, he visited many historical sites related to the Japanese war of aggression against China, including the Memorial Hall for Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, and learned many historical facts that he had never heard of before. Two months later, he and his lawyer friends visited China for the second time, and made the first contact with the war victims who demanded an apology and compensation from the Japanese government, and listened in detail to the complaints of the survivors of the Pingdingshan Massacre, the victims of labor plunder and forced labor, and the survivors of the "three light" policy. "At that time, I even hated being Japanese." Onodera Toshitaka told this reporter. When the victims asked Mr. Onodera to defend them, Onodera felt complicated and painful. For him, there are two choices: accepting the demands of war victims means fighting against the Japanese government that refuses to bear the responsibility for the war, and not accepting it means supporting the Japanese government's refusal. At that time, a political event stung Onodera Toshitaka. At that time, Japanese Minister of Justice Nagano Maomen made a public speech denying the existence of the Nanjing Massacre. Feeling very ashamed, he immediately wrote a protest statement with several other lawyers, sent it to the Japanese Embassy in China, and organized a Japanese press conference. Since then, Onodera has embarked on the road of defending the victims of the China war.
After returning to Japan, Onodera Toshitaka felt that his fame could not bear the heavy responsibility. I visited Mr. Hiroshi Dashan, a lawyer who fought a lawsuit with the Japanese government for more than 30 years and finally won the case, which had a great influence in all walks of life in Japan. He wants to organize a lawyer's group, headed by Miyayama Hiroshi, as the director-general, and then find a group of promising young rising stars to form a Japanese lawyer's group combining "old, middle and young". Today, Japanese lawyers' groups have grown to more than 500 people, and more than 200 people often participate. There must be several or a dozen lawyers in every case.
In the court struggle for more than ten years, although many lawsuits were defeated, the Japanese judges' judgments have undergone such changes: from denying the facts of the crime to admitting the facts of the crime. 73 1 Human experiments and killings in the army, Nanjing massacre and rape, indiscriminate bombing and killing of citizens, Shanxi comfort women incident, Liu Lianren's kidnapping as a laborer and forced labor incident, Japan's metallurgical Dajiangshan Mining Institute forced labor incident, Pingdingshan residents' collective killing incident and gas bomb abandonment incident were all killed by Japan. This is an epoch-making achievement in the history of trial.
For more than a decade, Japanese lawyers' groups have never charged any agency fees for Japanese victims' claims against China. On the contrary, Japanese lawyers' groups donated money for the investigation and evidence collection of historical events, the physical examination of victims and the travel expenses between China and Japan, and actively raised funds. It is roughly estimated that each ordinary member of the lawyers' group contributes about 654.38+0 billion yen every year, while Onodera Toshitaka, Nan Diannan and others, as the core figures of the lawyers' group, spend millions of yen every year.
Onodera Toshitaka was 53 years old when he made up his mind to do it, and he had black hair. But when he was interviewed by reporters this time, he was covered in China hair.
Li Lou: I do things for my compatriots and have no regrets.
One person must be mentioned in this trip-Li Lou, general manager of Japanese lawyers' group.
In the difficult journey of litigation against Japan, the Japanese Chinese warmed the hearts of every victim with his most sincere actions. He cares about their lives, understands their feelings, serves every detail of the victims and becomes the closest friend of all the victims.
1998, Li Lou learned through a friend that the Japanese lawyers' group was helping the victims in China to file a lawsuit for compensation. The Chinese Japanese who has lived in Japan for 28 years immediately got in touch with the Japanese lawyers' group, hoping to do something for his compatriots with his meager strength. He did it for nine years at a time. In the past nine years, Li Lou has participated in voluntary service in more than a dozen cases, such as forced labor, comfort women and gas bombs. In the early days of Sino-Japanese contact, Japanese victims had some doubts about the sincerity and attitude of Japanese lawyers' groups, and they also had great resistance. At this moment, Li Lou appeared. There is no language barrier, and his sibling status makes him a lubricant between China victims and Japanese lawyers. Every time the victim of China arrives in Japan, he will be welcomed at the airport, arrange accommodation, act as an interpreter and even accompany him on a tour. The victim has been with him all the time, and these are free. What is commendable is that he persevered and gradually Li Lou became an indispensable figure in the Japanese lawyers' group.
In order to spare more time to fight conference planning's lawsuit, he adjusted his working hours, putting his main business-fashion design, stage design and international affairs in a secondary position, while helping Japanese victims took up most of his time and reduced his income. Recently, when he came to China with Japanese lawyers to collect evidence, he joked with China lawyer volunteers: "Sister Luo, no way. Let's do some business together to make some money, otherwise we can't stand it. " Speaking of this, he told reporters that these are not important. It is important that more victims in China can get the compensation they deserve. This is the direction and motivation of his efforts. Although there are many complaints at home, he is still crazy. He said, "I must build a bridge between the victims and Japanese lawyers to protect the interests of victims in China to the maximum extent. This is my original intention. "
In Li Lou's memory, he can't remember how many times he came to China to collect evidence, how many times he worked as a court interpreter for Japanese lawyers and how many times he received victims. But he gets drunk every time he returns to China, because he never refuses the sincere wishes of any victim. Our reporter Xue Mingmu Haiyan