Thanks for that info! It is the first positive thing I have heard of 
treatment of US prisioners held by Japan. Another factor is that the Japanese 
treated their own soldiers (subordinates) very poorly by western standards 
and the POW quarters were not much worse than standard Japanese Army 
barracks. They did work prisioners very had in mining and work of that 
nature. The Russians kept Japanese from the Kuantung Army captured in 
Manchuria as priisoners in Siberian lumber camps nad mines for 7 years. On my 
last trip to Tokyo, I chatted one night in a neighborhood bar with one such 
fellow nad he had a grim story.
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