三菱重工在韓國敗訢要賠償給二次大戰勞工

Recently the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:
第２次大戦中、朝鮮半島から徴用された韓国人の元労働者９人が、三菱重工業と新日鉄に損害賠償や未払い賃金支払いを求めた訴訟で、韓国最高裁は２４日、個人の損害賠償請求権は有効との初判断を下し、原告の請求を棄却した２審判決を破棄、高裁に差し戻す判決を言い渡した。 　
今後、原告の訴えが認められる可能性が高い。 　
原告らの一部は１９９０年代、広島と大阪で同様の訴訟を起こしたが敗訴が確定している。韓国の２審判決は、日本の判決を準用して請求を棄却したが、最高裁は「日本の判決は、日本の植民地支配が合法であることを前提にしているが、強制連行を違法とする韓国の憲法と真っ向から対立するため、承認できない」などとした。
（2012年5月24日22時43分 読売新聞）
(試譯文)
During the Second World War, nine former workers of South Korea were commandeered from the Korean Peninsula, in a lawsuit they asked the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Nippon Steel for reparations and the unpaid wage payments. On the 24th (May) The South Korean Supreme Court made announcement on its ruling, for the first time it was judged that the claim for damages put forward by an individual was effective, it  over-ruled the judgment made in the second trial which rejected the claim of the plaintiff.

From now on, there was a high possibility that the petition of the plaintiff would be accepted.

Some of the plaintiff had filed the same lawsuit in Hiroshima and Osaka in the 1990s, the decision then was that their case was lost. Although in South Korea the second trial decision also applied Japan's judgment correspondingly and rejected the claim, the Supreme Court presupposed, among other points, that "Although premised on the colonial rule of Japan it was lawful, it is opposed to the constitution of South Korea head-on, making the compulsory enlistment illegal. Japan's judgment cannot be recognized".

It will be a good news for those Korean who had suffered in the hands of the Japanese during WWII.