High court upholds denial of redress to Koreans

A supporter of 3 Korean plaintiffs puts up Dec. 21 a banner informing a lost case after the Nagoya High Court's Kanazawa branch upheld a lower court rejection of a demand by the plaintiffs who served as forced laborers during World War II that a Japanese machine tool maker pay them unpaid wages. The banner reads ''The darkness of Japan further deepened.'' ==Kyodo

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