…The other case is the appeal by the Japanese government and Nishimatsu Construction, which refused to accept the Hiroshima High Court decision requiring them to compensate the forced labor victims…At the end of 2002, when the lawsuits launched by the Chinese victims had been under way for seven years, a new defense argument was used by the Japanese government. It was asserted that “the plaintiff’s right to claim for personal compensation has been abandoned as the result of treaties.” This argument is called “abandonment of the right to claim...” [I]n 1972 when China and Japan restored diplomatic relations…and theJoint Communique was signed…