" wrote:Japan apologized Thursday for the harsh mistreatment of Canadian prisoners of war after the disastrous Battle of Hong Kong in the Second World War.
For one Canadian who was imprisoned in Japan during the war, however, the belated apology isn't worth much.
"Apologies don't mean a thing. There's no money in apologies and you can't eat 'em," said John Ford, now a resident of St. John's, who spent 3 1/2 years in a Japanese PoW camp in Nagasaki as a forced labourer. "At my stage in the game, there's not a thing they can do for me.
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