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Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph reported fury among British POWs once held by the Japanese that the queen is to invest the emperor of Japan with the Order of the Garter, Britain's highest order of chivalry, when he visits London next month.
Tuesday was "National Sorry Day" in Australia, but not in Japan, which, despite Emperor Akihito's state visit to Britain this week, could not bring itself to apologize unequivocally for the Japanese atrocities inflicted on British POWs in Burma during World War II.
His most heroic act of insubordination was declining to be released from maggot-infested captivity ahead of other POWs who were captured before he was--an offer others accepted, in violation of military rules.
For that reason, his story ends in 1973, when the POWs returned home.
The editors argue that Milosevic's release of the POWs was a "humane gesture that should be built upon."