JAPAN TO-DAY
Sir, —With reference to C. W. Hooper’s letter on Japan and her people, it is easily seen he has been there on occupational duty only. It was very different in Japan in the war years, when the “ Sons of Heaven ” thought they were winning. I have a cousin who was captured in Malaya. He was put to work on the infamous Thailand railway. During the time he was with the " civilised and educated ” people he contracted cholera, typhoid fever, and malaria, not to mention the hardships he suffered through slow starvation and the inhuman treatment the Japanese meted out to the prisoners of war. When he arrived home in Brisbane his mother did not recognise him, he was so thin. He had to be carried off the train on a stretcher to a hospital, where he stayed for 12 months. He is now going blind. Mr Hooper should wait for a few years to elapse before he writes in praise of the Japanese people. It is easy to be docile when you're a conquered nation. —I am. etc., Belle.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26584, 6 October 1947, Page 7
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