Surprise! FGs in Aso mines!

[Greji]

Kinda of strange that everybody in the world has know about this since 1945 and the Japan Times and DPJ is just learning about it:confused:

[SIZE="4"]It's official: Aso family mine used POW labor
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The government said Thursday it has documents showing Allied POWs worked at a coal mine run by Prime Minister Taro Aso's family during World War II.
Many similar documents have surfaced, but this is the first time the government has acknowledged that Aso Mining Co. in Fukuoka Prefecture used POWs, said Yukihisa Fujita of the Democratic Party of Japan.


"Prisoner policy is important in many ways for diplomacy, and it is a major problem that the issue has been neglected for so long," Fujita said at a news conference. "For a long time, the government has been continuing to deny the many revealed documents and the (existence of) POWs" at Aso Mining. More here......

[Behan]

Aso should apologize.

[Phantom]

[SIZE="5"]It's official: [/SIZE][SIZE="4"]Aso is a conniving, egotistical scumbag, desperate to hold onto power and so far out of touch with Japanese society that a dung beetle from some middle-eastern desert would do a better job of Japanese Prime Minister[/SIZE]



[color="Red"][SIZE="4"]Please, someone throw a shoe at it.[/SIZE][/color]

[Mulboyne]

Japan Times: Ministry pulled protest to NYT over family mine POW claim

Prime Minister Taro Aso admitted Tuesday that the Foreign Ministry deleted a written protest to The New York Times from its Web site last month after finding evidence that a company run by his family during World War II used Allied POWs to work its coal mines. In 2006, the International Herald Tribune, published by The New York Times, printed a story that said Aso Mining Co. used Asians and Westerners as forced laborers. Aso was foreign minister at the time the story was published. "Last year, the health ministry's investigation newly revealed that Allied POWs did work at Aso Mining," Aso told a Diet session Tuesday. "I believe that the Foreign Ministry deleted the counterargument from the Web site because new facts that were not acknowledged at the time of publication have been ascertained." He did not elaborate further.

The Foreign Ministry had argued on the Web site of the Consulate General of Japan in New York that the "government has not received any information the company has used forced laborers" and that it was "totally unreasonable to make this kind of judgmental description without presenting any evidence." But last month, the government deleted the protest after the health ministry revealed it found old documents showing Aso Mining Co. in Fukuoka Prefecture used 300 Allied POWs, of which 101 were Britons, two were Dutch and 197 were Australians. Whether the POWs were mistreated could not be ascertained via the documents.