The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday rejected compensation demand brought up by Chinese plaintiffs for Japan's World War II atrocities, including germ war and massacre.

Turning down the appealing, the high court said in its ruling that under international laws, the individual victims have no right to seek compensation with a foreign country for damages inflicted by a foreign military force.

In the previous ruling issued on September 1999, the Tokyo District Court also rejected claims for damages, while recognizing the facts raised by the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs said they will appeal the ruling which had no words about the atrocities.

Almost all the previous rulings over similar cases denied claims for government compensations, given some did admit to the plaintiffs' sufferings in Japan's invasion.

The 10 plaintiffs lodged the lawsuits in 1995, asking the Japanese government to apologize and pay compensation for a series of wrongdoings in the war, including the Nanking Massacre and the killing medical experiments performed on Chinese by Japan's Unit 731 germ war troops.

Waving her fists on wheelchair, Guo Jinglan, 83, bursted, "I'm determined to take care of myself and fight to the end." She and her husband were arrested by Japanese troops in 1941 in northeastern Heilongjiang Province on charge of conducting resistance activities. After grim interrogation, her husband was sent to the Unit 731 and never returned.

"Only by recognizing the history, can Japan play a role in the international community," said Yoshio Shinozaka, who testified for the plaintiffs as a former member of the Unit 731, "Although I'm 81 now, the battle will be going on until the end of my life."