UNPRECEDENTED APOLOGY
American World War II prisoner of war (POW) James Murphy (R) shakes hand with Hikaru Kimura (C), Mitsubishi Materials Corp. senior executive, and Yukio Okamoto, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation outside board member, Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, in Los Angeles on July 19, 2015. Kimura and Okamoto apologized to Murphy and other allied POWs who were used as forced labor at Mitsubishi Materials’ predecessor company. AFP PHOTO
American World War II prisoner of war (POW) James Murphy (R) shakes hand with Hikaru Kimura (C), Mitsubishi Materials Corp. senior executive, and Yukio Okamoto, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation outside board member, Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, in Los Angeles on July 19, 2015. Kimura and Okamoto apologized to Murphy and other allied POWs who were used as forced labor at Mitsubishi Materials’ predecessor company. AFP PHOTO
LOS ANGELES: Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials made a landmark apology Sunday to US prisoners of war forced to work in its mines during World War II, seven decades after the conflict.