{"id":60864,"date":"2015-07-15T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60864"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:43:08","slug":"mitsubishi-to-apologize-to-us-pows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60864","title":{"rendered":"Mitsubishi to apologize to US POWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60865\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Yumoto01-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"Yumoto01\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Yumoto01-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Yumoto01-366x333.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Yumoto01.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldcourier.com\/news\/years-on-japanese-firm-to-apologize-to-us-wwii-veterans\/article_de7323c0-bc16-57a8-bceb-80773f66c3ba.html\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Mitsubishi Materials Corp., a company that used American Prisoner of War labor during World War II, will apologize to a former POW in a ceremony orchestrated by the Simon Wiesenthal Center; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A senior executive of Mitsubishi Materials Corp. will apologize to 94-year-old James Murphy, of Santa Maria, California, and relatives of other former POWs who toiled at plants its predecessor company operated in Japan during the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A press release from the Wiesenthal Center said the apology will be made by Hikaru Kimura, senior executive officer for Mitsubishi Materials Corp. The company did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment late Monday. Mitsubishi Materials U.S.A. Corp. said Tuesday it had no information about it.<\/p>\n<p>Masato Otaka, spokesman for the Japanese Embassy in Washington, said to the extent of his knowledge, it was an initiative of Mitsubishi Materials. He said the Japanese government has no involvement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The picture above is supposedly one of Mitsubishi&#8217;s POW camps at a mine in Hanshu, Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that Mitsubishi Materials Corp., a company that used American Prisoner of War &hellip; <a title=\"Mitsubishi to apologize to US POWs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60864\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mitsubishi to apologize to US POWs<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}