[단독]"When I'm 13, I'll send the school to work.

Girls victims of accidents at the factory Nagoya Aircraft Factory Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. [사진 근로정신대 할머니와 함께 하는 시민모임]

"I am pleased that the Supreme Court has ruled (too late)."

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., filed an action for damages on May 29, victim of the workers I think it is a natural test result.

She did not attend the trial the day she had waited so long. She lives in the metropolis of Gwangju and has not been able to go to the Supreme Court because of health problems due to her old age. Instead, he heard the results of his trial against television from hospital to hospital.

Just after the Supreme Court's sentence, the voice of the two grandmothers who had calmed down by talking to Joongang Ilbo's reporter changed with the word "Japan". When she asked, "What do you mean to the Japanese government and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries," she asked, "If you are in Japan now, you will have good conscience and good things will happen in your country." .

The lives of victims of working age, including grandmothers, were tears. She went to Japan in 1944 when she was 13 years old. She was a sixth grade student in elementary school and was mobilized into the Nagoya Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aircraft Manufacturing Company under the direction of the Japanese director and teacher who "will study in Japan and send her to high school." ".

Life in Japan was hell. A young schoolgirl was involved in cleaning rust from airplane parts with thinner and alcohol. I had to paint the outside of the plane. This remains uncomfortable because of the toxicity of the painting at the time.

One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit in damages against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, [뉴시스]

She told the story of her life at that time and the fact that she had not received any compensation since her appearance in the lower house court. She said: "I ate miso soup, pickled plum and radishes, and she said," I almost died of an earthquake during my work. "The grandmothers reached the court in 2013 while they were going to court, and although it was decades ago, I had not forgotten the situation in Japan and the name of the Japanese principal who had deceived.

The other plaintiffs who were pursued with her grandmother were Park Hae-ok (88), Grandma Kim, Sung-ju (89) and Grandma Lee (88). At the end of the war in Asia-Pacific, according to the "Meeting of citizens with a grandmother of women workers", a civil society organization of the Gwangju metropolis having supported this action in court, the Japanese government announced that About thirty teenagers in Gwangju, in the state of Jeonnam, I took a woman to the Nagoya Aircraft Factory.

Victims of forced labor such as grandmother Yang Jung-deok are victims of a lawsuit against Mitsubishi in June 2015 and claim a long life in the Gwangju High Court. [중앙포토]

Even after returning home, the grandmothers' life was not smooth. It is misunderstood by "comfort women of the Japanese army". This problem also provoked a disagreement with her husband. The grandmothers who were forced to mobilize misunderstood their parents, siblings and theirs, and had to live and die in their home country.

Older grandmothers are not healthy because of pain and aging in Japan. This is the reason why most plaintiffs, such as Yang and Grandma, did not find the Supreme Court directly in the "1973 waiting period". Park struggles in a retirement home and this grandmother is sick. Kim's grandmother, injured during an earthquake in Tochigi Prefecture in December 1944, is uncomfortable. Another holiday, Kim Soon-rye, was killed by the earthquake of the time and Kim Byeong-rye pbaded away in 2001. Kim Jong-ryeong's brother and Kim Bok-ryeo's husband Kim Jung-gon (94), joined the case as plaintiffs.

The Mitsubishi Workers' Compensation case is seen as one of the examples of the damage done by the comforting women of the Japanese army and the violation of women's human rights during the colonial period Japanese. Mitsubishi has not acknowledged its responsibility for the damages and grandmothers of the old victims have filed a lawsuit, of which they do not know when they will end, and have received a final judgment of the Supreme Court that day. the.

Gwangju Metropolis = Kim Ho Reporter [email protected]