日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / World

Mitsubishi apologizes for using POWs as slave labor

By Agencies in Los Angeles | China Daily | Updated: 2015-07-21 07:53

Construction giant Mitsubishi Materials Corp became the first major Japanese company to apologize for using captured US soldiers as slave laborers during World War II, offering remorse on Sunday for "the tragic events in our past".

A company representative offered the apology on behalf of its predecessor, Mitsubishi Mining Co, at a special ceremony at a Los Angeles museum.

"Today we apologize remorsefully for the tragic events in our past," Mitsubishi Materials Senior Executive Officer Hikaru Kimura told an audience at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

About 12,000 US prisoners of war, of whom more than 1,100 died, were put into forced labor by the Japanese government and private companies seeking to fill a wartime labor shortage, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Six POW camps in Japan were linked to the Mitsubishi conglomerate during the war, and they held 2,041 prisoners, more than 1,000 of whom were from the US.

Mitsubishi Materials Corp's predecessor ran four sites that at the time of liberation in 1945 held an estimated 876 US prisoners of war. Twenty-seven of them died in those camps, Asia Policy Point said.

Previous Japanese prime ministers have apologized for Japan's aggression during the war, but private corporations have been less contrite.

On Sunday, Kimura was flanked by Yukio Okamoto, a forced laborer in a copper mine and a special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, along with an image of US and Japanese flags.

In the audience were other forced-labor survivors and family members.

"This is a glorious day," said 94-year-old veteran James Murphy, who survived the infamous Bataan Death March in the Philippines and working at Mitsubishi Mining's Osarizawa Copper Mine. "For 70 years, we wanted this."

Reuters - AFP - AP

 

Mitsubishi apologizes for using POWs as slave labor

James Murphy, a US POW who survived working at Mitsubishi's Osarizawa Copper Mine and the infamous Bataan Death March in the Philippines, reacts after a Mitsubishi news conference apology in Los Angeles on Sunday.? Reuters / Mariko Lochridge

 

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产一区二区三区网站 | 99久久精品一区二区 | 久久精品大片 | 天天干天天草天天射 | 亚洲三区视频 | 深夜视频在线观看 | 狠狠干狠狠干狠狠干 | 天堂av成人 | 天天干,天天操 | 国产精品久久久久久69 | 黄色av中文字幕 | 激情自拍偷拍 | 天天射夜夜爽 | 性猛交xxxx| 欧美日韩资源 | 日本精品国产 | 精品久久久久一区二区国产 | 亚洲人做受高潮 | 成人一级黄色片 | 91欧美在线 | 日韩永久免费视频 | 天堂伊人网 | 成人精品999 | 99re这里只有精品6 | 久久99精品波多结衣一区 | 少妇特黄一区二区三区 | 免费看黄色aaaaaa 片 | 深夜福利一区二区 | 久久久久a | 9.1人成人免费视频网站 | 成人午夜在线播放 | 欧美色交| 看毛片视频| 亚色综合 | 亚洲大片在线观看 | 久久婷五月 | 超碰狠狠操 | 国产 日韩 欧美 综合 | 99九九视频 | 香蕉视频官网 | 天堂久久网|