S. Korea orders 2nd Japan firm to compensate forced laborers
Associated PressSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a Japanese company to financially compensate 10 Koreans for forced labor during Tokyo’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, in the second such ruling in a month that again drew quick, vehement protests from Japan. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said that the ruling was “extremely regrettable and absolutely unacceptable.” Mitsubishi called it “deeply regrettable.” “The ruling not only imposes unfair damages to Japanese companies but fundamentally overturns the legal foundation of friendly and cooperative relations that Japan and South Korea have built since the 1965 normalization,” Kono said. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga demanded South Korea retract the decision immediately, warning that Japan could consider “all options” including taking the issue to the International Court of Justice. Japan made similar protests when the South Korean court ruled last month that Japan’s Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. should provide compensation of 100 million won to each of the four plaintiffs.
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