A Korean court has ruled that the Japanese machinery manufacturer Nachi-Fujikoshi must pay compensation to a group of Korean women who were subject to forced labour at its factories during WW2. Nachi-Fujikoshi has stated that it will appeal the ruling. The Korean Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in 2012 that, contrary to the position of the Japanese government, persons who performed forced labour for Japan during the war were not barred from pursuing claims by compensation by the 1965 treaty between the two countries.