 Koreans, both the South and the North, view this incident as a deliberate Japanese war crime committed by the Japanese government of the time to conceal information about the Japanese military base.This view was illustrated in the 2001 North Korean film "Souls Protest".Eighty South Koreans, survivors and relatives of the victims of the incident, have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government, seeking some in compensation, an official apology, and the remains of the victims that are kept in a shrine in Japan.