Firm to pay chinese wartime laborers

TOKYO - Nishimatsu Construction Co. secured a reconciliation Monday with wartime Chinese laborers, agreeing to pay 128 million yen ($1.36 million) to the war victims.

According to the reconciliation agreement signed by the two sides at a Tokyo court, Nishimatsu admitted the fact of forcing Chinese laborers to labor under severe conditions in a working site in Niigata Prefecture, and issued an apology to them.

In October 2009, in a similar accord the company agreed to pay 250 million yen ($2.74 million) to the wartime Chinese laborers, who were forced to work in Hiroshima Prefecture.