Japan Apologizes for Bataan Death March

Korea is still waiting for Japan's apology. Only 73 witnesses remain to Japan's atrocities.

Japan Apologizes for Bataan Death March

Ambassador Speaks to Last 73 American Survivors of the March

By VIJA UDENANS
SAN ANTONIO, May 30, 2009

The Japanese ambassador to the United States apologized in person today to the 73 surviving POWs of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in April 1942 during World War II.

"We extend a heartfelt apology for our country having caused tremendous damage and suffering to many people including prisoners of war, those who have undergone tragic experiences in the Bataan peninsula the Corregidor Island, Philippines and other places," Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki said at the last convention of the American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor POWs of the Japanese during World War II.

Sixty-seven years after the Japanese captured and force-marched 12,000 Americans and 68,000 Philippines from the island of Corregidor to northern Luzon, denying them food and water, and killing the stragglers, the country apologized.

The ambassador said he was speaking for the government of Japan as he apologized.

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Now can we apologize for the Trail of Tears?

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forgive Japan for their atrocities.