The plaintiff submitted the 16th preparatory brief. The defendant submitted the 12th preparatory brief and a written response to the request for clarification. The evidence submitted by both sides was examined. Attorney Eriko Uebayashi made a statement regarding the 16th preparatory brief. The two plaintiffs also presented their opinions. The court stated that it considered the main issues at issue to be 1) whether there was a violation of obligations under the State Compensation Act, 2) the causal relationship between the violation of obligations and the death, and 3) damages, and that it recognized that the violation of obligations would be (I) the illegality of continued detention and (II) the illegality of medical provision. The court stated that it would like to examine the evidence with a particular emphasis on the illegality of medical provision. Next time, the plaintiffs will submit a written statement summarizing their claims regarding the violation of obligations under the State Compensation Act, with an emphasis on the illegality of medical provision.

We submitted the Plaintiff's 15th Written Statement. In addition, we filed a request for clarification on behalf of the Plaintiff. After two of the Plaintiffs presented their statements, Plaintiff's counsel Komai delivered an oral argument regarding the written statement. The next session will proceed with the Defendant's rebuttal.

The Defendant's 11th preparatory document and the response to the request for clarification have been submitted. Additionally, two of the Plaintiffs presented their statements. In the next session, the Plaintiff will present their rebuttal.

The pretrial conference was held in the Nagoya District Court at 1:20 p.m. on May 12, 2022. Thirteen plaintiffs' counsel attended (nine of whom were online). For the defendant's side, 9 persons attended.

Due to the large number of parties involved, a date was set until next February, and one date will be set ahead for each date in the future.

On the first oral argument(June 8, 2022), two plaintiffs will make statements of opinion and plaintiffs' counsel will make opening statements. The defendant will make a substantive answer on the second oral argument(July 20, 2022).

The plaintiff requested the defendant to consider voluntarily submitting the video of Wishma's room as soon as possible. If not, we will file a motion for an order to get it, so just start preparing to submit the video, and avoid delaying the date. The defendant said he would consider the matter.