marking the first time a forced labor victim has secured such funds in a legal case. South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a series of rulings ordering Japanese firms to compensate its citizens ...

Japan's Kishida and South Korea's Yoon are ready to mend relations, but both leaders face problems back home. The Yoon administration's plan to resolve forced labor disputes with Japan is already ...

the year South Korea obtained its independence. During the Second World War, Japan forced hundreds of thousands of Koreans into forced labor in factories and mines to support its economy during the ...

South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a third Japanese company to compensate some of its former wartime Korean employees for forced labor, the second such ruling in a week. The South ...

The disagreements over labour and women forced into Japanese military brothels have bedevilled ties between the neighbours for decades. Under the plan, South Korea would compensate former forced ...

The issue reared its head again in 2018, when South Korea's top court ordered a Japanese firm to compensate Koreans it used as forced labour. Mitsubishi Heavy, one of the firms involved ...

Japan's Kishida and South Korea's Yoon are ready to mend relations, but both leaders face problems back home. The long unresolved forced labor dispute nears closure, with South Korea deciding to ...

Both groups, however, were careful to distinguish these efforts from the Korean Fund for forced labor plaintiffs. Despite this distinction, Japan and South Korea share many priorities: regional ...

South Korea was colonised by Japan from 1910 ... In 2019 relations between Tokyo and Seoul plummeted over the forced labour dispute during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan arrived in Seoul on Friday as he looks to give a final boost to improved bilateral ties ...