CHORLEY MP Lindsay Hoyle has told the Government it must demand the Japanese pay compensation to thousands of former prisoners of war used as slave labour in the Far East.
He said his constituent Jim Hobson, from Chorley, received cash from the British Government which paid £250million to ease the old age of former Japanese PoWs.
But he said the Tokyo government should be "shamefaced and ought to find the money to compensate the people who are still left".
He demanded that the Government use every possible occasion to tell the Japanese they had a duty to find the cash to help British servicemen mistreated by the Japanese Army responsible for atrocities such as the Burma Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
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