On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard
To compensate for Japan’s manpower shortage during World War II, the country’s military commanders often shipped their prisoners to the Japanese mainland, where they worked as slave labourers in mining and heavy industry. As someone who made such a trip after my own capture in 1941, I can
On This Day in 1945, Japan Released Me from a POW Camp. Then US Pilots Saved My Life
It was noon on August 15th, 1945. The Japanese Emperor had just announced to his people that his country had surrendered unconditionally to the Allied Powers. To those of us being held at Ohashi Prison Camp in the mountains of northern Japan, where we’d been prisoners of war performing
