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Japan’s Mitsubishi To Apologize For Using U.S. POWs As Forced Labor In WWII

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    July 20, 2015
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A senior executive will personally say sorry to James Murphy, 94, who was forced to work in one of the company’s copper mines, something he described as “slavery in every way.”

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