Nishimatsu Construction secured a reconciliation Friday with wartime Chinese laborers, agreeing to pay 250 million yen (2.74 million U.S. dollars) to the war victims. According the reconciliation agreement…Nishimatsu, which offered the reconciliation talks in April, issues an apology to the laborers and pledges to build a memorial for them. In April 2007, Japan's Supreme Court turned down the damage lawsuit filed by former Chinese laborers…The top court ruled that Chinese individuals have no right to judicially claim war reparations from Japan because China has given up the right under the Japan-China Joint Statement signed in 1972…