The Hiroshima High Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling and awarded damages in full to a group of Chinese wartime slave laborers.
The laborers in question were forced to work under severe conditions at a construction site in Hiroshima Prefecture during World War II.
The high court overturned a July 2002 ruling by the Hiroshima District Court that rejected the lawsuit brought by Shao Yicheng, 78, and four other plaintiffs four years earlier against Nishimatsu Construction Co., a Tokyo-based construction firm.