Courts in Japan denied the claims based both on the Hague Convention against the Filipino and the Dutch plaintiffs with the reasoning that, though the Convention provide the contracting states with the rights to claim for their citizens, it did not provide individuals' rights to claim directly against violating states. B. Initiative to Introduce New Legislature for Compensation in Japan 1. Initiative for the Reparation for Sexual Slavery Law Bill 3. The government of Japan responded to it only by explaining its cooperation with the Asia Women's Fund. At present, any prosecution against acts during WWII would be barred by statute of limitations under the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Law.
Japan has no statute to specifically criminalize sexual slavery.
The Constitution of Japan prohibits retroactive effects of criminal law. C. Obligations under Treaties Enforced in Japan Japan is a state party since 1953 to the 1949 Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilians during War, which oblige a state party to introduce a new legislature to punish grave violations. Nevertheless no new legislature was introduced to this respect. Though the Genocide Convention or the Torture Convention obliges a state party to criminalize acts of genocide or torture, Japan has not ratified them. As War crimes when committed as a part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes.