South Korean court orders Mitsubishi Heavy to pay Korean women for forced labor http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/national/history/south-korean-court-orders-mitsubishi-heavy-to-pay-korean-women-for-forced-labor/#.VZlW_1L-VLM
Korean Court Rules Against Mitsubishi Heavy Over Forced Labor by Sam Kim http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/korean-court-rules-against-mitsubishi-heavy-over-forced-labor
>A resolution condemning the Japanese government’s attempt to list wartime facilities for conscripted Korean soldiers as >World Heritage was passed by a parliamentary committee Monday. The resolution will be put to a final endorsement at the >National Assembly’s plenary session Wednesday.
>Much of this success was due to the systematic planned mobilization of women, as workers, soldiers and >housewives, enforced after December 1941 by conscription.
>Seoul initially opposed Tokyo's UNESCO campaign itself but later shifted its strategy to use >it as a chance for publicizing the neighbor's wartime brutality.
>Roughly 700,000 Koreans were forced to work for private companies within Japan, while more than 300,000 Koreans >were forced to serve in the Japanese military in fighting and support roles.