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Showa Steel Works controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 1942

    Use of Chinese forced labor

    Showa Steel Works used Chinese prisoners as forced labor during the wartime period. More than 4,000 Chinese forced laborers were reported at the site by early 1942, linking the enterprise to the coercive labor system of Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

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