Japan's PM under pressure about family's wartime use of slave labour

Antipodean Andy · Nov 15, 2008

Japanese PM under fire for family's POW labour - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso is again under pressure over a family connection to Australian Prisoners of War (POW) being used as labourers in Japan during World War II.

During World War II, a company owned by Mr Aso's family used allied POWs, including Australians, as labourers in its coal mines.

In Parliament, Mr Aso was asked about the POWs.

He said he was only four years old at the time, and therefore was not aware of it.

The opposition pressed Mr Aso further, accusing him of being irresponsible for not finding out more, and warning it was an important diplomatic issue.

Mr Aso has been under pressure over wartime history after the chief of staff of Japan's Air Force was sacked for writing an essay in which he said the United States had 'lured' Japan into World War II.
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