Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd has been ordered to pay 80 million yen or around 71,000 dollars each to 23 South Koreans seeking compensation for forced labor.
Mitsubishi Motors, Japan's sixth-largest carmaker, admitted that its employees had altered data in fuel-consumption tests for some of its models so that they would record better mileage.
In 1998 commercial circle-makers acting for Mitsubishi, a Japanese carmaker, paid Mr Carson for the right to cut an outline of a new model named the Space Star in his fields.
The Japanese car maker Mitsubishi and Nissan have confirmed that they are discussing a possible financial deal as Mitsubishi struggles to recover from falsifying its fuel efficiency figures.
The sacked chairman of Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault had been held in custody since mid-November on charges of financial wrongdoing at Nissan, which he denies.
Mitsubishi's boss apologised, though that didn't stop a suspension of trading in the company's shares, whose price plunged by 15% after the news broke.