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War Claims and Compensation: Franco-Vietnamese Contention over Japanese War Reparations and the Vietnam War

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Geoffrey Gunn
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This article seeks to disentangle the complex claims and counterclaims to Japanese war reparations deriving from the period of Japanese rule in Vietnam in the years 1940-45.

It demonstrates that, alongside Cambodia, Vietnam stands out among the beneficiaries of Japanese war reparations for the huge gap in expectations over compensation issues. Not only was the Tokyo government challenged internationally by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) as the sole legal claimant upon these reparation funds against both the Republic of Vietnam (SRV) and France, it was also challenged domestically by Japan's major left-wing opposition parties.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 49 , December 2011 , e4
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