Amid an intensifying diplomatic row between Seoul and Tokyo,... South Korea's Supreme Court will hand down its final verdict in the coming hours on Japan's forced wartime labor of Korean women and girls.
Four female victims sued Japan's Mitsubishi for compensation in 1999 and 2012, in Japan and Korea, respectively.
When the victims were only in their mid-teens,... they were sent to work at Mitsubishi factories during Japan's colonial rule over Korea.
The top court is also scheduled to rule on a separate damages suit against Mitsubishi Materials that was filed by another group of Korean victims of Japan's forced labor.