After 18 years of trial,... South Korea's Supreme Court reached a final verdict... on Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' forced wartime labor on Koreans,... ordering the Japanese firm to compensate the victims. <br />The court ordered the firm on Thursday to pay around 90-thousand U.S. dollars... to each of the 23 victims and their families... for unpaid work at the Mitsubishi factories back in 1944. <br />The Supreme Court says a 1965 agreement,... under which Japan paid South Korea 500 million dollars to normalize diplomatic relations,... does not terminate the right of individuals to seek reparations.<br />In a separate ruling, the court ordered the firm... to also provide compensation for the 4 grandmothers and one of the family members of the deceased.<br />These women sued Mitsubishi in Japan back in 1999 but lost,... and filed another lawsuit in Korea in 2012. <br />
