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The victims of forced labor in Japan were victorious in the lawsuit against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a Japanese war criminal, against claims for compensation.
The second Supreme Court decision, the Supreme Court of Justice Cho Jae-yeon, confirmed on June 29 that four victims of the Chosun Workers Protection Center, including Yang Geum-deok, and one survivor have sued Mitsubishi.
As a result, victims and survivors received 100 million won and 150 million won, respectively.
In 1944, she and her grandmother were forcibly dismissed and forced to work in a factory in Mitsubishi Nagoya, Japan, under the pressure of a Japanese director in accordance with the Japanese Law of 1944 on the mental work of women.
These victims filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government and Mitsubishi in March 1999, but were dismissed in November 2008 in the Supreme Court.
Mitsubishi was unable to reach a consensus to obtain compensation, and the company filed a lawsuit in the Korean court in 2012.
The mandatory recruitment of Mitsubishi is based on the fact that the compulsory recruitment of Mitsubishi was carried out in a difficult environment where there is a high probability of separation from the family and the threat of life or body. was actively involved in the illegal colonization and invasion of the Korean peninsula by the Japanese government of the time. "
In particular, Mitsubishi's badertion that the right of victims to claim damages was abolished in 1965 under the Korea-Japan claim agreement.
"It is agreed that Japan will provide free $ 300 million over ten years and will provide $ 200 million in loans to the country, but there is no clear consensus on the nominal amount, the right to seek redress n & nbsp; Has not been extinguished and the diplomatic protection of the Republic of Korea has not been abandoned. "
The Supreme Court also pointed out that Mitsubishi's claim that the judge was right and that the statute of limitations to terminate the trial was over was not allowed by an abuse of law contrary to the principle of sincerity of God.
In addition, the second division of the Supreme Court (Supreme Court Justice Park Sang-ok) upheld the court's decision that six other victims, including Park's grandfather, had filed a lawsuit. against Mitsubishi against the plaintiffs. Park and her grandparents received child support of 80 million won per person.
These victims were forcibly arrested in 1944 at the Mitsubishi Shipyard.
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