Nishimatsu settles with 2nd group of ex-forced laborers+

TOKYO, April 26 Kyodo -
Nishimatsu Construction Co. reached a 128 million yen settlement Monday with a
second group of wartime forced labor victims from China, thus settling all
suits filed against it over the matter following a similar move last October.
Under the settlement terms reached at the Tokyo Summary Court, Nishimatsu will
pay the money to a fund for 183 workers who were engaged in construction work
to build a power plant in Niigata Prefecture, while accepting the blame for the
forced labor and apologizing to the victims.
The Tokyo-based construction company took the procedure for settlement
following a comment by the Supreme Court in finalizing a ruling against the
former workers in 2007, calling on the parties concerned to try to agree on
compensation.
In October last year, Nishimatsu agreed to set up a 250 million yen fund to
compensate 360 people who were forced to work at a construction site for a
power plant in Hiroshima Prefecture and who returned home at the end of World
War II in 1945.
==Kyodo
2010-04-26 23:26:23


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