A South Korean high court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay compensation to four Korean women who were forcibly conscripted as laborers during World War II, when Japan ruled the Korean Peninsula.
The Gwangju High Court told the Japanese company to pay three of them 120 million won (about ¥13.4 million) each and the other 100 million won in compensation.
The court in the southwestern city of Gwangju also ordered Mitsubishi Heavy to pay about 102 million won to a fifth plaintiff whose two deceased family members, both of them women, were forcibly conscripted into labor for the Japanese.