the Koreans forced to work for Japanese firm and during World War two have
finally won in two separate court cases the South Korean Supreme Court has
ordered the company to pay almost two dozen victims for the unpaid work they
did decades ago Japan responded with anger
Lee Jiwon tells us more after an 18-year legal battle the Supreme Court decided
on Thursday in the first case to uphold a lower court ruling ordering Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries to compensate 823 plaintiffs for unpaid work at Mitsubishi
factories back in 1944 the court ordered the firm to pay around 71 thousand US
dollars to each of them or in case her deceased their relatives the supreme
court reasoned that the 1965 agreement under which Japan paid South Korea 500
million u.s. dollars to normalize their diplomatic relations did not terminate
the right of individuals to seek reparations in the second ruling the
court ordered Mitsubishi to compensate for elderly woman at a relative of a
plaintiff for his thigh the plaintiffs first sued Mitsubishi back in 1999 in
Japan for making them work without pay at a Mitsubishi aircraft plant in Nagoya
in 1944 after losing their lawsuit in Japan in 2008 the plaintiffs filed
another one in Korea in 2012 the Japanese firm has continuously appealed
but Seoul Supreme Court on Thursday upheld previous rulings that it is
inhumane and illegal to force teenage girls to work at ammunition plant the
ruling comes about a month after the top court upheld a 2013 ruling that ordered
a Japanese steel maker to pay each of four Korean plaintiffs for unpaid work
during World War two the case and the latest one have deepened the divide
between the two countries the Japanese government has once again strongly
protested Tokyo's foreign ministry summoned the South Korean ambassador to
register its objections and its foreign minister taro kono released a statement
saying the ruling is unacceptable and goes against the 1965 agreement
coño also strongly urged the South Korean government to take appropriate
steps or Japan do all it can including an international trial to defend what
economic activities he said were legal Mitsubishi said that it deeply regrets
the ruling and that it will talk with the Japanese government to formulate a
response South Korea's foreign ministry said it respects the court's ruling it
urged Japan to stop overreacting and summon the Japanese ambassador to object
to Tokyo strong words the ministry also said it will continue discussions within
the government about a response to the recent forced labor rulings it'll also
work to heal the wounds of the victims while at the same time striving to forge
a future-oriented relationship with Japan Jiwon Arirang news
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