Two Chinese plaintiffs who successfully sued Japan over weapons abandoned in China at the end of the war urged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday not to appeal a court ruling ordering the state to pay 190 million yen in compensation.
Liu Min, 27, and Li Chen, 58, are two of the 13 plaintiffs who lost relatives or suffered health problems from weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army.
They tried to meet Koizumi in the Diet building Wednesday evening as he walked out of a Lower House Budget Committee meeting.