Nippon Steel exec expressed intention in 2012 to accept ruling on forced labor: civic group
Social affairsOct 31, 2018
TOKYO -- An executive of the Japanese company that was ordered this week by South Korea's top court to pay compensation for wartime forced labor, expressed an intention to abide by such a ruling during a shareholders' meeting in 2012, a Japanese civic group said Wednesday.Soichiro Sakuma, then a senior executive at Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal, was quoted as saying on June 26, 2012, "We should obey the law," in relation to a ruling by South Korea's Supreme Court.Sakuma made the remarks after a