The Busan High Court ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. on Tuesday to pay 80 million won (about ¥7 million) each in compensation to the families of five deceased Koreans who were forced to work for the company during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
It was the second decision by a South Korean court in three weeks ordering private Japanese companies to pay compensation to South Koreans for conscript labor during World War II. On July 10, the Seoul High Court ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay 400 million won to four Koreans who were conscripted to work for Japan Iron & Steel Co.
Japan Iron & Steel was later renamed Nippon Steel Corp., a predecessor company to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal.