The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Japan should pay the victims 100 million won ($91,000) each.
It is the first civilian legal case in South Korea against Tokyo by wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops, who were euphemistically labelled “comfort women”.
The ruling comes despite a 1965 treaty between Seoul and Tokyo which declared claims between them and their nationals had been settled.
Imperial Japan was responsible for the “comfort women” system, the court said in its verdict.
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