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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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Relatives pray for Ehime Maru victims in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Thirteen relatives of three people who died in the 2001 sinking of the Japanese fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in waters off Hawaii pray for the victims at a memorial in the Kaka'ako seaside park on Oahu Island on Feb. 9 in a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the sinking.

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INDONESIA-YOGYAKARTA-BUS-ACCIDENT

(220207) -- YOGYAKARTA, Feb. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken with a mobile phone shows National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Yogyakarta members trying to evacuate victims after a bus accident in Bantul district, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 6, 2022. Thirteen people were killed and eight others wounded in a bus accident in Indonesia's Yogyakarta province on Sunday, spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Office Yusuf Latief told Xinhua. (Basarnas Yogyakarta/Handout via Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-YOGYAKARTA-BUS-ACCIDENT

(220207) -- YOGYAKARTA, Feb. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken with a mobile phone shows National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Yogyakarta members trying to evacuate victims after a bus accident in Bantul district, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 6, 2022. Thirteen people were killed and eight others wounded in a bus accident in Indonesia's Yogyakarta province on Sunday, spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Office Yusuf Latief told Xinhua. (Basarnas Yogyakarta/Handout via Xinhua)

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Relatives pray for Ehime Maru victims in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Thirteen relatives of three people who died in the 2001 sinking of the Japanese fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in waters off Hawaii pray for the victims at a memorial in the Kaka'ako seaside park on Oahu Island on Feb. 9 in a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the sinking. (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)