Thread: Japan's Mitsubishi Apologizes for Using US POWs for Slave Labor

Executives from Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation offered a historic personal apology for the company's use of American prisoners of war as forced laborers during World War Two.

Mitsubishi executive Hikaru Kimura offered a "most remorseful apology" to 94-year-old former POW James Murphy during a public ceremony Sunday at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

Before the ceremony, Kimura and other Mitsubishi executives offered the apology during a private meeting with Murphy.

"This is a glorious day," he said. "For 70 years, we wanted this," said Murphy, who was one of about 900 POWs to work in the company-owned mines and industrial plants during the war.


FILE - In this 1942 file photo provided by U.S. Marine Corps, Japanese soldiers stand guard over American war prisoners just before the start of the Bataan Death March following the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.


"I listened very carefully to Mr. Kimura's statement of apology, and found it very, very sincere, humble, and revealing," he went on. "And this happened to be the first time that we've heard those words and they really touch you at the heart of the thing."

A total of 12,000 American prisoners of war were put into forced labor by the Japanese government and private companies. Thousands of them died.

Although the Japanese government has officially apologized for using American POWs as forced laborers, the apology by Mitsubishi is the first ever by a Japanese conglomerate.

Japan's Mitsubishi Apologizes for Using US POWs for Slave Labor

Originally Posted by Pound Hound

its not like we are joos and want the world to kiss our asses and bend over backwards forever because their grandfathers were killed by Nazis....

Or put 94 year old men who were military bookkeepers during the War in prison as the joke that is present day Germany just did.

I just read some historical writings on the Bataan Death march and other things of Japan in WWII.

Awful.

Have a read about what happened to the Aussies on the Sandakan Death March.

In 1945 a group of over 2000 Australian and British prisoners of the Japanese in Borneo were taken from Sandakan to Ranau.

Of the 2345 men, only six survived. Of those who died, most were never found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandakan_Death_Marches


https://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/s...apan/sandakan/

have a read about.

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

or

http://terrific-top10.com/2011/12/20...-world-war-ii/

^Nothing compared to the conventional bombings of Tokyo, before the nukes were unleashed..

Tokyo WWII firebombing, the single most deadly bombing raid in history, remembered 70 years on - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)