List of Issues:

1. What is the reason for the Fourth Periodic Report providing no response to the Committee's last comment concerning the discriminatory veterans pension system for former colony nationals?
   
   Paragraph 9 of the last Committee's Comments of 1993 holds a discriminatory veteran pension practice to former colony nationals, including Koreans and Taiwanese, as one of principal subjects of concern. Several Committee members specifically raised this issue at the Committee's last review of the Periodic Report of the Japanese Government.
   
   Does this lack of response indicate complete inaction by the Japanese government? If not, please provide the information on the government's effort concerning this issue.
   
   
2. Please elaborate on the development since the Committee's last review of 1993 concerning lawsuits filed by veterans from former Japanese colonies seeking compensation.

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