Mitsubishi to compensate for forced labour
Judge ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to pay each of the victims’ families more than $70,000.
Published On 30 Jul 2013
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