S. Korean court upholds Mitsubishi compensation order for WWII forced labor

미쓰비시 근로정신대 2차 소송도 항소심 승소Yet another court ruling in South Korea against Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for using Koreans in forced labor during World War Two.The Gwangju High Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by Mitsubishi and upheld a lower court's ruling... ordering the Japanese firm to pay compensation worth about 89-thousand U.S. dollars to 134-thousand dollars to each of the four victims or their surviving families.The court said Japan's colonization of South Korea in the early twentieth century was illegal, and therefore it was also illegal for Mitsubishi to inhumanely force young girls to work at munitions plants with no pay.Seoul's Supreme Court, in the past two months, has handed down similar rulings in three other cases, so it's unclear if Mitsubishi will try to appeal again.