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Urgent: Japan's Mitsubishi to compensate Chinese wartime forced laborers: media

Xinhua, July 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Japan's Mitsubishi Materials will offer compensation for the Chinese forced laborers it used during the World War II, according to Japan's Kyodo News early Friday, citing sources directly involved in the issue.

If realized, it will mark the first positive step by the company to seek reconciliation with the Chinese forced labor victims. Endi