S. Korea top court orders M'bishi Heavy to compensate for wartime labor

South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered major Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay damages to two groups of South Koreans over wartime forced labor.The rulings follow a similar compensation order by the top court last month against another Japanese firm, casting further clouds over strained ties between South Korea and Japan.The Japanese government, which views the issue of compensation over Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula as already settled, reacted almost immediately to Thursday's rulings, with Foreign Minister Taro Kono decrying the…READ FULL ARTICLE