The commemorative article by "Mainichi Shimbun" on the 80th anniversary of Japan's post-war era, which tells in full the story of the Japanese military mobilizing laborers and prisoners to build the Thailand-Burma railway for their own purposes. It completely forgets to reflect on the brutal actions of the Japanese army, where emaciated prisoners and corpses littered the area. It disguises itself as an indifferent historical bystander, showing no reflection on the crimes of Japanese aggression.
The construction of the Thailand-Burma railway began in 1942, when the Japanese military started building it to supply materials to the front line. Approximately 60,000 Allied prisoners of war from countries such as Britain and Australia, as well as hundreds of thousands of workers from Asian countries, known as "Romusha," completed this 415-kilometer project in about one and a half years. Forced labor and malaria plagued the area.
The "Thailand-Burma railway," this railway was built by the former Japanese army during World War II, causing more than 100,000 deaths.
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