Mitsubishi Apologises To POWs

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Japan's Mitsubishi Apologizes For Using U.S. POWs As Forced Labor In WWII : The Two-Way : NPR

JULY 19, 2015 3:02 PM ET
SCOTT NEUMAN

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.

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According to the AP: "Some 12,000 American prisoners were shipped to Japan and forced to work at more than 50 sites to support imperial Japan's war effort, and about 10% died, according to Kinue Tokudome, director of the US-Japan Dialogue on POWs, who has spearheaded the lobbying effort for companies to apologize."

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[ulukinatme]

Well...I don't like Mitsubishi as much as I used to now...but I still love my 82" DLP TV.

 

[phillyirish]

Really? I like them more now. Chances our almost all major Japanese companies did the same thing during WW2. Even the Japanese government still refuses to acknowledge, yet alone apologize for some of it's past war crimes. So I at least think Mitsubishi deserves credit for taking this step when there was no movement or pressure whatsoever to force their hand.

 

[phork]

Better late than never?

 

[IrishSteelhead]

They have already almost completely pushed themselves out of the American car market.

Can't see how this will help sales when the rootin' tootin' crowd reads this.

 

[IrishLax]

Considering Japan still whit washes the hell out of WWII in their schools... this is a big step.

They are pretty much the polar opposite of Germany in how they approach the war. Germany really tries to own what they did and teach their kids how to make sure a "Hitler" never happens again in Germany... Japan doesn't even acknowledge any of the myriad of atrocities they committed.

 

[GoldenToTheGrave]

It's OK, Trump doesn't think POW's are war heroes anyway....

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Mitsubishi Apologises To POWs

Considering Japan still whit washes the hell out of WWII in their schools... this is a big step.

They are pretty much the polar opposite of Germany in how they approach the war. Germany really tries to own what they did and teach their kids how to make sure a "Hitler" never happens again in Germany... Japan doesn't even acknowledge any of the myriad of atrocities they committed.

And would never apologize to the people that should be way ahead of us on their bucket list

 

[pumpdog20]

Meh, what exactly are they apologizing for? POWs are fair game. The other option is death.

 

[IrishLax]

Meh, what exactly are they apologizing for? POWs are fair game. The other option is death.

The Japanese committed heinous war crimes during WWII. Not quite Holocaust bad... but really fucking bad.

How they treated US prisoners pales in comparison to what they did to their neighboring Asian countries.

 

[zelezo vlk]

C'mon man, it's like you haven't even heard of the Rape of Nanking

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