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Japan's Mitsubishi Apologizes For Using U.S. POWs As Forced Labor In WWII
Source: NPR
Japan's Mitsubishi Apologizes For Using U.S. POWs As Forced Labor In WWII
JULY 19, 2015 3:02 PM ET
Updated at 6:10 p.m. ET
Japan's Mitsubishi corporation is making a big apology. It's not for any recall or defect in its products, which include automobiles, but for its use of American prisoners of war as forced labor during World War II.
James Murphy, 94, traveled from his home in Santa Maria, Calif., to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, where a ceremony was held and Hikaru Kimura, a senior Mitsubishi executive, made the apology in person.
"Being one of the few surviving workers of that time," Murphy said in a statement, "I find it to be my duty and responsibility to accept Mr. Kimura's apology."
Murphy spent a year of forced labor, from 1944 to '45, at a copper mine owned by the company in Japan. He told the Associated Press this week that the experience was a complete horror, "slavery in every way."
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JULY 19, 2015 3:02 PM ET
Updated at 6:10 p.m. ET
Japan's Mitsubishi corporation is making a big apology. It's not for any recall or defect in its products, which include automobiles, but for its use of American prisoners of war as forced labor during World War II.
James Murphy, 94, traveled from his home in Santa Maria, Calif., to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, where a ceremony was held and Hikaru Kimura, a senior Mitsubishi executive, made the apology in person.
"Being one of the few surviving workers of that time," Murphy said in a statement, "I find it to be my duty and responsibility to accept Mr. Kimura's apology."
Murphy spent a year of forced labor, from 1944 to '45, at a copper mine owned by the company in Japan. He told the Associated Press this week that the experience was a complete horror, "slavery in every way."
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Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/19/424408003/japans-mitsubishi-to-apologize-for-using-u-s-pows-as-laborers-in-wwii
