SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Mitsubishi Materials Corp. is reportedly creating a fund to help Chinese victims of forced labor, in sharp contrast to the attitudes revealed by other Japanese companies that similarly forced Koreans into labor during the Japanese colonial period. According to Japanese news agency Kyodo News, Mitsubishi Materials will be creating [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Japanese government has been blamed for trying to downplay the role of Japanese companies that forced Koreans to work in their factories during the colonial era. The Japanese government has recently abandoned the use of the term “forced laborers”, favoring instead “laborers from the Korean Peninsula.” Experts say [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a Japanese steelmaker to compensate four South Koreans for wartime forced labor and unpaid work, casting a cloud over already soured ties between the two neighbors. The top court upheld an appeals court ruling in 2013, which ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Taro Kono, Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that he was “not at all thinking about a losing ruling” regarding a court decision to be made today on whether a Japanese steel firm must compensate Korean victims forced to work in its factories. In an interview with Sankei Shimbun, [...]
TOKYO, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A Japanese Buddhist temple has conducted a memorial for 35 sets of remains belonging to Korean people brought to Japan to work for its factories and military during World War II before they are sent home this week, a South Korean civic group said Monday. Representatives of the civic [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A UNESCO committee is expected to cite Japan’s wartime brutality of forcing Koreans into harsh labor at some of its newly designated World Heritage sites, a government official here said Monday. UNESCO plans to hold the 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee in Bahrain through next Wednesday. The [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Thursday ordered a Japanese company to compensate a South Korean for forced work during Japan’s colonial rule. In the latest legal victory for wartime forced laborers, the Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of Lee Chun-myeon, 86, who filed the case against Nichi-Fujikoshi Corp. [...]
CHEONGJU, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Mr. Ko is 47 years old. At first glance, he may seem like an introvert, shy, or perhaps reserved, but still an ordinary man like countless normal individuals who go unnoticed every day. However, Mr. Ko is no ordinary man, he is intellectually disabled, and he has spent the [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An experts panel of the International Labor Organization called Japan’s conscription of Korean and other workers during World War II a violation of a convention banning forced labor, a report published in 1993 and obtained by Yonhap News Agency on Friday showed. On Sunday, Japan inscribed a set of [...]
“Japan has brought the issue this far by going ahead with the registration despite our repeated calls to reconsider. The responsibility for politicizing UNESCO lies with Japan.” “This is in consideration of the many member nations that worry UNESCO may be politicized due to the dispute between South Korea and Japan and wish for a [...]