This article examines the corporate counter-offensive to reparations claims for Chinese forced labor in Japan, as presented by defense lawyers for Mitsubishi Materials Corp... In startling closing arguments last September, Mitsubishi issued a blanket denial of historical facts routinely recognized by other Japanese courts, while heaping criticism on the Tokyo Trials and openly questioning whether Japan ever "invaded" China at all. [also refers to Mitsui Mining, Kajima, Nippon Yakin Kogyo, Rinko, Mitsubishi Cement, Hazama]