Senior Mitsubishi executive Hikaru Kimura presented a “most remorseful apology” to 94-year-old James Murphy of California
Yukio Okamoto, Outside Board Member of Mitsubishi Materials and former Special Advisor to Japan's Prime Minister, left, and Hikaru Kimura, Senior Executive Officer Mitsubishi Materials, offer an apology as they hold hands with 94-year-old U.S.
Los Angeles: Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials has made a landmark apology to US prisoners of war forced to work in its mines during World War II, seven decades after the conflict.
The Japanese government only officially apologised to former American POWs five years ago, and Mitsubishi’s initiative on Monday appeared to be the first of its kind by a Japanese corporation.
Senior Mitsubishi executive Hikaru Kimura presented a “most remorseful apology” to 94-year-old James Murphy of California, one of just a few surviving US prisoners forced to work in Japan. Murphy accepted the “sincere, humble” apology.
( Source : AFP )
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