DAEJEON, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean appellate court has dismissed Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ appeal against a lower court’s order to seize its assets held here to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor, judicial officials said Tuesday. The Daejeon District Court’s appellate division in the central South Korean city made [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has appealed a South Korean court’s order to seize its assets held in South Korea soon after the relevant legal process to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor took effect late last month, judicial officials said Monday. The public notifications to Mitsubishi Heavy went [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Public notices of a local court took effect Tuesday to move forward a legal process to sell off local assets of a Japanese firm to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor, in a procedure likely to raise diplomatic tensions between Seoul and Tokyo. The public notification to Mitsubishi [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan remains negligent in carrying out UNESCO recommendations that the country offer correct accounts of wartime forced labor when describing the history of industrial sites recognized as World Heritage, an official said Friday. When the 23 Meiji-era industrial sites won the World Heritage recognition in 2015, Japan promised to [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s failure to recognize its wrongdoings during World War II should fundamentally be addressed and dealt with from the perspective of rectifying a violation of human rights, experts said Wednesday. “The interpretation issue of forced mobilization and forced labor is not just an issue between the two countries (South [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Japanese government was found to have invested a significant sum of money in an agency in charge of the de facto distortion of historical facts surrounding Hashima Island, where Koreans fell victim to forced labor during Japanese colonial rule. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his cabinet, challenging [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s Industrial Heritage Information Center in Tokyo, criticized for distorting historical facts related to forced labor on Hashima Island — also known as Gunkanjima — turned out to be the tip of the iceberg as fake information on history regarding forced labor by Imperial Japan continues to spread online. [...]
BUSAN, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Memorial Museum of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Occupation has established a memorial hall to commemorate those who were put to forced labor during Japanese rule and never made it back home. The Foundation for Korean Victims of Forced Mobilization by Imperial Japan held an opening ceremony for [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic South Korean cyber organization created posters that were put up for distribution on social media Wednesday to criticize Japan’s Industrial Heritage Information Center in Tokyo for offering distorted information related to the various historical atrocities that took place on Hashima Island. Japan vowed that it would set [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court has decided to begin a legal procedure that could lead to liquidating seized assets of a Japanese firm that has ignored a ruling to compensate Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor. According to the legal representatives for four Korean plaintiffs Wednesday, the Pohang branch of [...]