The Tokyo District Court turned down a lawsuit Friday filed by three survivors of a 1932 massacre by Imperial Japanese Army troops in Liaoning Province, China.
The two men and one woman were between 4 and 9 years old at the time of the incident and were seeking 20 million yen each in compensation from the Japanese government.
They claimed they lost family members and experienced brutality at the hands of the army in a suburb of Fushun on Sept. 16, 1932.