Business tycoon Robert Kuok leaves Ilham Tower after attending his first meeting with the Council of Elders in Kuala Lumpur May 22, 2018. — Picture by Mukhriz Hazim
“Once, a young Japanese woman who was our family friend asked me to talk about the war. After I told her about my experiences for 10 to 15 minutes, she said, ‘I cannot believe you. What you have said was not in the Japanese history textbooks.’ “About 15 or 20 people that I knew, including my school teacher, were killed in this one incident,” Kuok was quoted as saying.
Kuok also related that he once worked for Japanese trading company Mitsubishi Shoji, and because of that had learned the Japanese language.
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