Over sixty years after the end of the Second World War, a Japanese company has paid out compensation to Chinese wartime forced-laborers. This is the first time any payment has been made in such a case.
The historic payment was made by the Japanese Nishimatsu Construction Co. to five surviving Chinese former forced laborers.
The events that led up to this week's historic event go back over six decades.
Robots and their potential to do both good and evil have always fascinated humans, and a display of the latest android technology at the Shanghai Expo has done nothing to dampen this enthusiasm. And as you may have guessed, it was in the Japanese pavilion. BON's Tom Spender has more.