South Korea court orders Japan firm to compensate wartime forced labourers

SEOUL - South Korea's top court ruled on Tuesday that Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. should compensate four South Koreans for their forced labour during World War Two when Japan occupied Korea, Yonhap reported.

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The Supreme Court ordered the company to pay 100 million won (S$121,465) to each of the four plaintiffs.

The court ruled that the former laborers' right to reparation was not terminated by a 1965 treaty normalizing diplomatic ties, rejecting the claim by Tokyo, Yonhap said.

Japan occupied Korea from 1910-45.