But a fund probably would be easier, with Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Nippon Steel the biggest payers into that fund and all the other companies joining to a smaller degree. It would be a fund for the prisoners who have survived and for the surviving widows of prisoners who have died. The companies really should make an honorable offer to these men. They could offer them the wages, plus interest. They deserve a sincere apology.
Precedents are clear.
German companies have paid compensation for slave labor, and Germans have apologized. What I ask is whether the Japanese industrialists really want to be held to a lower standard than the Germans. Between 5,500 and 5,600. Gap s father was employed in the railroad yards in Gallup, worked the night shift and, every night when no one else was around, would go out in the railroad yards, pray to God and cry about Gap every night. The wind was very strong at night in the desert and the doctors later said that it was the wind drying up his tear ducts that made him blind.