South Korea court orders Japan firm to compensate wartime forced laborers

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News ID: 30833
Asia » Asia
Publish Date: 12:04 - 30 October 2018
TEHRAN, October 30 - South Korea's top court ruled on Tuesday that Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. should compensate four South Koreans for their forced labor during World War Two when Japan occupied Korea, Yonhap reported.

South Korea court orders Japan firm to compensate wartime forced laborersTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The Supreme Court ordered the company to pay 100 million won ($87,700) to each of the four plaintiffs.

The court ruled that the former laborers' right to reparation was not terminated by a 1965 treaty normalizing diplomatic ties, rejecting the claim by Tokyo, Yonhap said.

Japan occupied Korea from 1910-45.

Source: Reuters

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