South Korea's Supreme Court upholds lower court decisions ordering that Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. pay damages to South Koreans over wartime labor.
South Korea's Supreme Court upholds decisions by lower courts ordering two Japanese firms, Nippon Steel Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., to pay damages to South Koreans for wartime labor.
The Supreme Court ruled that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries must provide between 100 million and 150 million won (USD 76,700 and USD 115,000) in compensation to each of four plaintiffs all bereaved families of its former employees who were forced to work for the company during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.