TOKYO (Reuters) - Lawyers seeking compensation for South Koreans forced to work for Japanese firms during World War Two on Monday demanded Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp honour a South Korean court ruling that has strained ties between the two countries.
Last month, South Korea's top court ruled that Nippon Steel must pay four steel workers 100 million won (68,434 pounds) each for their forced labour during the war, a decision Japan has denounced as "unthinkable."
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