The daughter of an Imperial Japanese Army soldier sentenced to death by a military tribunal for engaging in a contest to kill Chinese soldiers in 1937 said during a defamation suit hearing Monday she and her family still suffer stigma because of the "accusations."
At the first session of the trial before the Tokyo District Court, Chieko Tadokoro, daughter of 2nd Lt. Toshiaki Mukai, said her family suffered for years -- both financially and emotionally -- due to the "groundless accusations" regarding her father published in articles and books during and after World War II.
She is one of three relatives of Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, another second lieutenant convicted of taking part in the killing contest, seeking a total of 36 million yen in damages from the Mainichi Shimbun and the Asahi Shimbun newspapers, publisher Kashiwa Shobo and writer Katsuichi Honda.