Chien is owed much-the salary he never received as a soldier, the retirement benefits that other soldiers received, salary for the time he spent in prison as a war criminal-and he has applied again and again over the years to get it, but his efforts have earned him nothing but cold, bureaucratic rebuffs.
多年來他不斷向日本政府提出申請，要求支付戰爭時期薪餉、軍人恩給、和戰犯服刑時的薪資，卻遭受一次又一次封閉官僚體制的冷淡拒絕。