S. Korean court upholds lower court's decision and orders Japanese firm to compensate Korean victims of forced labor

전범기업 후지코시 강제동원 할머니 5명 또 승소…"각 1억 배상"More rulings on Japan's forced labor of South Koreans are coming out.Seoul District Court on Wednesday upheld a ruling from 2016, ordering Nachi-Fujikoshi to compensate 5 South Korean women forced to work during World War Two.The Japanese machinery manufacturer was ordered to pay 89-thousand U.S. dollars to each of the plaintiffs. The victims were brought to Japan and were forced to work at the firm's munitions factory without pay or sufficient food.A similar ruling was made in another appeal by that company last week against an 88-year-old South Korean plaintiff. Many of these rulings had been made years ago,... but the Japanese firms' appeals had been pushed back, something that's under investigation locally. With South Korea's Supreme Court ordering Nippon Steel & Sumitomo to compensate its victims last October, many lower courts have been following suit.