Yang Sun-im

Yang Sun-im is a Korean activist who heads the Association for the Pacific War Victims and plaintiff groups for lawsuits by former comfort women. She is the mother-in-law of Takashi Uemura, a former reporter of Asahi Shimbun.
In 2010, she formed the "Civilian Claims Tribunal Against Japan," and was indicted for defrauding about 30,000 people of 1.5 billion won in the name of legal fees and other expenses by 2011 by recruiting members, claiming that the families of those born between 1900 and 1930 would receive compensation. However, the Seoul High Court acquitted him on the grounds that he "did not try to deceive the bereaved families rather encouraged those in charge of recruiting to conduct legitimate recruitment activities targeting only actual victims.