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  1. POWs want compensation for Japanese atrocities (1995)

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    Interview

    Japan’s Prime Minister may have apologised for atrocities committed against allied prisoners of war fifty years ago, but the fight for compensation goes on. Japan maintains the matter of money was...

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  2. Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII (1995)

    Genre
    News report

    Nick Wood reports on a memorial service in Tokyo, Japan to their war dead on the fiftieth anniversary of their surrender at the end of the Second World War. Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama made a statement...

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  3. Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    Nick Wood reports on the Japanese surrender fifty years ago that brought the Second World War to an end. Includes speeches by President Harry Truman calling for Japan to surrender and announcing surrender;...

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  4. Japanese apology for WWII actions (1995)

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    Interview

    The Japanese Prime Minister’s apology to former allied POWs has not been enough to convince veterans here who’ve vowed to continue a fight for compensation. Arthur Titherington, who was interned in...

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  5. POW’s await apology from Japan for mistreatment (1995)

    Genre
    Speech

    Ann Levick, who was a prisoner at the hands of the Japanese fifty years ago is unhappy with the apology for treatment of allied POWs in the Second World War which was a personal one from the Prime Minister...

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  6. Royal British Legion commemorate the dead (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    Former POWs held by the Japanese in the Second World War have been allowed to lay a wreath inside London’s County Hall. Initially, its Japanese owners had refused to allow veterans inside the building, but...

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  7. Royal British Legion commemorate the dead (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    It is fifty years since the Japanese surrendered and the end of the Second World War. Two Royal British Legion officials, Graham Downing and Bert Reeves, are interviewed on being allowed into London’s...

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  8. Japanese war criminals allowed to escape (1995)

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    Interview

    Public records have been uncovered showing that in the fifties, the British Government allowed suspected Japanese WWII war criminals to be released, under pressure from the United States who wanted to...

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  9. Japanese war criminals allowed to escape (1995)

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    Interview

    Martyn Day is a solicitor trying to force the Japanese Government to give compensation to survivors and families of victims of Japanese atrocities during the Second World War. He is amazed that the British...

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  10. Japanese war criminals allowed to escape (1995)

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    Interview

    Martyn Day, a solicitor trying to get compensation for Allied POWs, believes it is not too late for the British Government to make amends for allowing suspected Japanese WWII war criminals to be released in...

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