WASHINGTON (Kyodo) Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Ichiro Fujisaki offered a direct apology Saturday to a group of World War II veterans taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines.
Thousands of them died during the infamous Bataan... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Sun, May 31 2009
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