Japan firm to apologise to US POWs

AFP, TOKYO: Japan's Mitsubishi Materials said Wednesday that it would offer a landmark apology to US prisoners of war forced to work for the industrial giant during World War II, seven decades after the conflict ended.
A senior company executive will apologise to 94-year-old survivor James Murphy and the relatives of other POWs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles on Sunday. The centre is dedicated to the rights of Holocaust survivors.
"Mr Murphy will represent all the American prisoners of war who were put to labour in the then company's mines in Japan," a company spokesman said.

Japan firm to apologise to US POWs

AFP, TOKYO: Japans Mitsubishi Materials said Wednesday that it would offer a landmark apology to US prisoners of war forced to work for the industrial giant during World War II, seven decades after the conflict ended. A senior company executive will apologise to 94-year-old survivor James Murphy and the relatives of other POWs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles on Sunday. The centre is dedicated to the rights of Holocaust survivors. Mr Murphy will represent all the American prisoners of war who were put to labour in the then companys mines in Japan, a company spokesman said.