President Moon Jae-in says South Koreans forced into labor during WWII have the right to seek compensation from Japanese firms despite 1965 treaty.
A South Korean court has for the second time in a week ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to compensate Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor. Friday's ruling compels the major maker of heavy machinery to pay four victims a total of 470 million won ...
The Seoul Central District Court has ordered Japanese machine tool maker Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to pay 100 million won (about ¥10 million) in compensation to a South Korean woman over forced labor by the firm in World War II. The ruling was announced Thursday. According to a ...
Labor authorities have referred to prosecutors the operator of a Japanese language school in Miyazaki Prefecture, suspecting it of forcing Indonesian students to work at care facilities owned by the same company. Additionally, documents related to Yutaka Shimizu, 70, the head of the group that ...
Tokyo has urged Seoul not to allow the erecting of a statue in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan that will reportedly symbolize Koreans conscripted to work during Japanese colonial rule, Japan's top spokesman said Wednesday. The installation of such a statue, if realized, ...
A South Korean court on Wednesday ordered a Japanese company to compensate a group of Korean women forced to work at the machinery maker in Japan during World War II. The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. must pay five victims 100 million ...
A South Korean court has ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay 100 million won (about ¥8.9 million) in reparations to the family of a South Korean man forced to work for one of its predecessor companies during wartime. The amount of damages ...
The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that forced labor on Thai fishing vessels has continued in the past year despite legal reforms and arrests following an Associated Press investigation into the country's seafood industry. The department made the assessment in its annual global review of ...
Lasting reconciliation can only be achieved when the stories and lessons of the past are handed down to future generations.
A court refuses to issue a judgment on the constitutionality of a 1965 Korea-Japan agreement in a case involving forced labor.
A South Korean court on Friday ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to compensate seven Koreans who were forced to work at one of its predecessor companies during the war a total of 700 million won (about ¥74 million). The Seoul Central District Court ...
A UNESCO panel has opened a meeting in the United Arab Emirates to examine about 90 nominations for the Memory of the World program for documentary heritage, including two controversial entries by China. Among the materials to be screened by the UNESCO International Advisory Committee ...
