A group of South Koreans filed suit Wednesday against the Japanese government and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., demanding 90 million yen in compensation for labor they were forced to perform during the war.

Kim Song Ju, 71, Kim Bok Rye, 71, and Kim Jung Gon, 76, the brother of Kim Sun Rye, who was forced to work at age 14, filed the lawsuit with the Nagoya District Court, demanding an apology in addition to compensation for forced labor at an MHI plant in Nagoya.

They are part of a group of forced laborers from South Korea who have filed two suits with the district court against the government and MHI. Five other South Korean women filed the other suit.

In the latest case, the plaintiffs said the three women were forced to work at the MHI spinning factory, where Kim Sun Rye died when the factory collapsed in the wake of the Tonankai earthquake of December 1944.