Picture of the Day: Mitsubishi Order to Pay World War II Forced Korean Laborer
Kim Jae-rim (C), a Korean victim of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ forced labor during World War II and one of four who had filed damage suits against the Japanese company, leaves the Gwangju District Court in the namesake city, 329km south of Seoul, on Aug. 11, 2017. The court ordered the company to pay 120 million won to the 87-year-old victim. Mitsubishi is one of the leading Japanese war criminal companies involved in forced labor during the war. More than 1 million Koreans were forcibly taken to mines, ammunition factories and construction sites in Japan during the war. (Yonhap)
Why the hell these megacorps don’t just get out in front of this and setup programs to accept and process these kinds of claims instead of wasting time, money, and face on fighting them is beyond me.
Granted the people at those companies now had nothing to do with it but the corporate entity itself benefited from and should fairly compensate those people. FFS why is it so hard for Asia to figure out how to move beyond the 1940s?
I don’t know why Koreans suddenly forget about an Agreement.
http://worldjpn.grips.ac.jp/documents/texts/JPKR/19650622.T9E.html