TOKYO, April 24 Kyodo (EDS: ADDIN...

TOKYO, April 24 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING annotations BY LAWYER AT 5TH PARA, PLAINTIFFS AT 14-15TH PARAS)

The Tokyo District Court forward Thursday urged the government to reach a liquidation with Chinese women raped by way of Japanese soldiers during World War II, although it disapproveed a damages suit they filed from a legal viewpoint.

The state is ''fully capable of reaching a legislative or administrative settlement'' presiding connoisseur Takaomi Takizawa said, as he place truth in the plaintiffs' claims that the 10 women were repeatedly raped and meet withed severe aftershocks.

It was the first time a court has called for a legislative or administrative adjustment even though 10 cases have been filed across wartime sex slavery by way of Imperial Japanese Army troops, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs -- seven Chinese women and the families of three deceased women -- plan to appeal the decision, if it be not that welcomed the court suggestion and chance of the desired end the government will comply with it, the lawyers said.

''We want the conduct to swiftly resolve the issue,'' lawyer Yuko Nakashita said at a pres talk after the decision. ''Some of the plaintiffs have died. We cannot afford a further delay as related the community are all elderly.''

The plaintiffs had sought damages of 20 million yen each, accusing the Japanese regulation of failure to take legal or administrative grades to give them compensation or other forms of redress

During the trial, the court one time suggested the parties reach a friendly pacification which the plaintiffs accepted in order to relieve the aging women moreover the government rejected it.

Takizawa pointed public that aftereffects of the rapes will continue to harm the survivors and said, ''It is desirable that a reconciliation acceptable to the women is reached, apart from judicial redress''

He accused the regulation of ''negligence in maintaining and keeping number discipline,'' saying the soldiers engaged in ''dirty brutalities that are extremely outrageous, steady though they were convoyed during wartime.''

According to court findings, the 10 women were raped, mainly between 1940 and 1944 when they were in their early teen to mid-20s, by the agency of many soldiers at their abiding-places and bases of the Imperial Japanese Army to where they were taken at force.

The women have since bear up undered severe physical and mental collision including the loss of the ability to give birth and post-traumatic stres disorder, above half a century, the court said.

yet the court dismissed the suit, with the justice saying, ''We had no choice on the other hand to dismiss a judicial redres based onward the application of law.''

The court supported the government's claim that there was no law requiring it to compensate the women at the time, and that the plaintiffs' right to claim beneath the Civil Code had expired because 20 years had passed since the rapes occurred

At the pres conversation Zhao Run Mei, a 76-year-old plaintiff, said by means of tears, ''We don't want to pass these heavy facts along to our grandchildren's generation. We will continue the trial until our claims are validated.''

Liu Wu Cheng, 78 who held a photograph of his deceased wife Yang Shi Zhen, said, ''The Japanese dominion appears to have a perception that if we die, the facts will disappear. This is not something that happened in the past for us.''

The plaintiffs, then including nine survivors, filed the suit in October 1998 based upon international laws and Chinese and Japanese civil laws.

Ten cases have been filed nationwide athwart wartime sex slavery, although the women in this case are not classified as ''comfort women'' a euphemism for those forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during the war.

Up to 200000 women mainly from the Korean Peninsula, then below Japanese colonial rule, were sent to wartime brothels, historians say.

More than 70 damages suits have been filed against the regulation and companies in connection with Japan's wartime acts, including sex slavery and forced labor. Of those, four cases were settl amicably with the companies touched but none with the government

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