LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) Two Americans who survived the Bataan Death March during World War II are urging a leading Japanese magazine to apologize for an article they claim denigrates the deaths and suffering during the infamous forced march in the Philippines.
The two survivors -- Lester Tenney, 86, a professor emeritus of finance at Arizona State University, and Robert Brown, 81, a retired chief master surgeon for the U.S. Air Force -- announced at a news conference Friday that they sent a letter to Bungeishunju seeking an apology because they felt "the intention of the article was not to recall history, but to rewrite it."
The article, headlined "A woman retraced the entire route of the 'Bataan Death March' alone" by journalist Yukie Sasa, was published in the December issue of Bungeishunju.