GWANGJU, South Korea, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A South Korean court ordered a Japanese firm Friday to pay four South Korean women $141,510 each for forcing them into labor, court officials said.
The amount of compensation ordered for the four victims was a record high, Japan's Kyodo News reported.
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The court also ordered the company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., to pay $75,374 to a fifth plaintiff whose two deceased family members were forced into labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II.
The ruling was the third of its kind since May 2012, when the Supreme Court reversed previous rulings that prevented forced workers and their families from seeking withheld wages.
