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The Japanese government has awarded a pension to two Korean women who were forced to work in a Japanese factory during World War II. After a court fight, the government relented and made the payment in a lump sum, basing the pension on 15 days of the women’s 1941 wages. Yang Chun-ki and Kwon Byong-suk, both 68, collected 24 cents, which was split evenly between them. (AP) ...It’s so moving to see injustice finally get righted.


Publication Date: 9 August 1998

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Volume 5, Page 20
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