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Surviving Chinese laborer Li Tiechui talks to reporters about his move of submiting petition to Japanese Prime Minister in Tokyo, Japan, June 29, 2005. Li went to the Prime Minister's residence to submit a petition and open letter with 230,000 signatures of Chinese citizens to Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro, demanding an open apology and economic compensation from the Japanese government. From August 1944 to November 1945, more than 400 of 986 Chinese slave laborers who were forced to work in a copper mine in northern Japanese town of Hanaoka have died of torture and arduous labor.
Takako Doi, former speaker of Japan's House of Representatives, gives her support to petition of a surviving Chinese laborer at a room of the House in Tokyo, Japan, June 29, 2005.
Carrying petitions and open letter with 230,000 signatures of Chinese citizens, surviving Chinese laborer Li Tiechui (1st L) and his accompaniers walk into the residence of Japanese Prime Minister in Tokyo, Japan, June 29, 2005.
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