OSAKA — The Osaka District Court ordered the Osaka Prefectural Government on Friday to pay a Korean survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima medical allowances that it had stopped paying after the man returned home from Japan.
The court ordered the prefectural government to pay Kwak Kwi Hun, 76, some 34,000 yen per month from August 1998 to May 2003, in line with the plaintiff's demand in the suit, filed in October 1998.
The decision marks the first time a Japanese court has ruled that hibakusha living overseas are entitled to the allowances.