"Supreme Court confirms Japan company should pay $69,500 to forced labor victim" 30 January 2026

The Supreme Court has finalized a ruling that ordered a Japanese construction company to pay 100 million won ($69,500) in compensation to the family of a Korean victim of Tokyo's wartime forced labor.

The family filed a compensation suit against the firm, Kumagai Gumi, in April 2019, claiming the victim, a 22-year-old surnamed Park, was conscripted into forced labor at its Fukushima office in October 1944 and worked there until his death the following February.

Park was one of many Koreans mobilized for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910-45.

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