Mitsubishi to compensate for forced labour

Judge ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to pay each of the victims’ families more than $70,000.

Relatives of five deceased South Korean men – judged to have been used as forced labour by a Japanese firm during the second world war – have won a damages ruling in South Korean court.

The judge ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to pay each family more than $70,000.

Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett reports from Seoul.

Source: Al Jazeera