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A South Korean plaintiff who won a wartime labor case against Japanese firm Hitachi Zosen Corp. received money deposited by the firm at a Seoul court on Tuesday, as the firm has not complied with an order by South Korea’s Supreme Court to compensate the plaintiff, according to a lawyer. This is the first case in which funds from a Japanese company have been transferred to a plaintiff following a trial related to wartime forced labor, the lawyer of the plaintiff said. The Japanese engineering corporation’s funds were deposited at the Seoul Central District Court to prevent the company’s assets …

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