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California Court Rejects WWII Damages Suit against Japan Cement Firms.

Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 2--LOS ANGELES -- A California superior court has reversed its decision of last year and rejected an 81-year-old Korean-American's damages suit against Japanese firms over slave labor during World War II.

The Korean-American had sued former Onoda Cement Co. and its successor Taiheiyo Cement Corp. for forcing him to labor on the Korean Peninsula without pay for some 18 months from 1944.

At issue in this and other World War II Japanese slave labor suits had been a 1999 Cal

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