Overview
- South Korea’s Supreme Court on Dec. 11 rejected Nippon Steel’s appeal, making a lower court order to compensate former wartime laborers final.
- Shiga Prefectural Police arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning two bodies at his Otsu home as they examine whether the victims are his elderly parents.
- ANA canceled 12 flights linking New Chitose with Kushiro, Hakodate and Haneda because significant snowfall is forecast in Hokkaido.
- Following the Dec. 8 earthquake that recorded a maximum intensity of 6-plus, roughly 9,000 people sheltered in evacuation sites during freezing conditions, according to a Kyodo tally.
- Nobel events in Stockholm included projection mapping of Hiroshima’s A-bomb Dome and paper cranes on City Hall, and Japanese laureates Susumu Kitagawa and Shimon Sakaguchi attended the Dec. 10 banquet with the Swedish royal family.