70 years after WWII, Japanese firm to apologize to US vets - Santa Cruz Sentinel
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. A major Japanese corporation will offer a landmark apology on Sunday for using U. S. prisoners of war for forced labor during World War II. A senior executive of Mitsubishi Materials Corp. will apologize to 94-year-old James Murphy and relatives of other former POWs who toiled at plants its predecessor company operated in Japan during the conflict. LOS ANGELES >> A major Japanese corporation plans to offer a landmark apology Sunday for using U. S. prisoners of war for forced labor during World War II, nearly 70 years after the end of the war. will offer the apology to former POWs — including 94-year-old James Murphy of Santa Maria, California — during a ceremony Sunday at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Japan’s government issued a formal apology to American POWs in 2009 and again in 2010. But the dwindling ranks of POWs used as slaves at mines and industrial plants have so far had little luck in getting apologies from the corporations who used... Source: www.santacruzsentinel.com
