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Court orders Nachi-Fujikoshi to compensate forced laborers

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman, one of the plaintiffs filing a lawsuit against Japan's Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to seek compensation for their forced labor, speaks to reporters in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2014, after the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fujikoshi to pay compensation ranging from 80 million to 100 million won (about $76,000-$95,000) each. Thirteen victims of forced labor and the relatives of four now-deceased victims have claimed they were deceived into going to study in Japan's Toyama City, where the company is based, and forced to perform hard labor without sufficient food and sleep during the World War II.

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Court orders Nachi-Fujikoshi to compensate forced laborers

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman, one of the plaintiffs filing a lawsuit against Japan's Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to seek compensation for their forced labor, speaks to reporters in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2014, after the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fujikoshi to pay compensation ranging from 80 million to 100 million won (about $76,000-$95,000) each. Thirteen victims of forced labor and the relatives of four now-deceased victims have claimed they were deceived into going to study in Japan's Toyama City, where the company is based, and forced to perform hard labor without sufficient food and sleep during the World War II.

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Mourning for children

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - About 100 relatives and others gather to pray for children lost in the March 11 tsunami at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Iwate Prefecture, on April 13, 2011. About 70 percent of the 108 pupils at the school died or went missing in the disaster.

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Sorry, grandpa

SASEBO, Japan - A scarecrow resembling an abandoned human skeleton forms part of a piece commenting on cases in which families were unaware of, or hid, the deaths of elderly relatives, in some cases to unlawfully claim their pensions, on Sept. 25, 2010. In the foreground is a sign reading, ''Are you there, grandpa...? Sorry about being unaware for 30 years.'' About 100 scarecrows have been displayed for the annual ''Onigigo Tanada Matsuri'' festival in rice paddies in the town of Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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(2)100 GSDF troops leave Asahikawa for Kuwait

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Relatives of about 100 Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) troops wave national flags as buses carrying them leave the GSDF's Asahikawa base in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Feb. 20.

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Japanese ambassador's ashes buried in Belgrade

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - One of the relatives the late Japanese Ambassador to Croatia Keisuke Oba, a Yugoslav-phile who died in the Philippines in August, buries his ashes in Belgrade on Sept. 27. About 100 people, including many of Oba's Serbian friends, attended the burial ceremony at the central Belgrade cemetery. Oba had told his family that he wanted to be buried in Yugoslavia after his death.

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100 mourners pay respects to centenarian twin Gin-san

NAGOYA, Japan - Two relatives of Gin Kanie, the celebrity twin who died of natural causes Feb. 28 at age 108, burn incense for her in a funeral in central Japan's Nagoya on March 2. About 100 mourners turned out to pay their respects to Kanie, who was known simply as ''Gin-san.'' Her twin sister Kin Narita, called ''Kin-san,'' died in January 2000 at age 107.

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Sorry, grandpa

SASEBO, Japan - A scarecrow resembling an abandoned human skeleton forms part of a piece commenting on cases in which families were unaware of, or hid, the deaths of elderly relatives, in some cases to unlawfully claim their pensions, on Sept. 25, 2010. In the foreground is a sign reading, ''Are you there, grandpa...? Sorry about being unaware for 30 years.'' About 100 scarecrows have been displayed for the annual ''Onigigo Tanada Matsuri'' festival in rice paddies in the town of Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Japanese ambassador's ashes buried in Belgrade

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - One of the relatives the late Japanese Ambassador to Croatia Keisuke Oba, a Yugoslav-phile who died in the Philippines in August, buries his ashes in Belgrade on Sept. 27. About 100 people, including many of Oba's Serbian friends, attended the burial ceremony at the central Belgrade cemetery. Oba had told his family that he wanted to be buried in Yugoslavia after his death. (Kyodo)

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Mourning for children

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - About 100 relatives and others gather to pray for children lost in the March 11 tsunami at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Iwate Prefecture, on April 13, 2011. About 70 percent of the 108 pupils at the school died or went missing in the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Court orders Nachi-Fujikoshi to compensate forced laborers

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman, one of the plaintiffs filing a lawsuit against Japan's Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to seek compensation for their forced labor, speaks to reporters in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2014, after the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fujikoshi to pay compensation ranging from 80 million to 100 million won (about $76,000-$95,000) each. Thirteen victims of forced labor and the relatives of four now-deceased victims have claimed they were deceived into going to study in Japan's Toyama City, where the company is based, and forced to perform hard labor without sufficient food and sleep during the World War II. (Kyodo)

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(2)100 GSDF troops leave Asahikawa for Kuwait

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Relatives of about 100 Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) troops wave national flags as buses carrying them leave the GSDF's Asahikawa base in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Feb. 20. (Kyodo)

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100 mourners pay respects to centenarian twin Gin-san

NAGOYA, Japan - Two relatives of Gin Kanie, the celebrity twin who died of natural causes Feb. 28 at age 108, burn incense for her in a funeral in central Japan's Nagoya on March 2. About 100 mourners turned out to pay their respects to Kanie, who was known simply as ''Gin-san.'' Her twin sister Kin Narita, called ''Kin-san,'' died in January 2000 at age 107.