Crosses and Tigers (1990) By Nagase Takashi & Watase Masaru
 
Takashi Nagase (永瀬 隆, Nagase Takashi, 20 February 1918 – 21 June 2011) was a Japanese military interpreter during World War II. He worked for the Kempeitai (military secret police) at the construction of the Burma Railway in Thailand, and spent most of his later life as an activist for post-war reconciliation and against Japanese militarism. He made over a hundred visits to Thailand, and from the 1970s, arranged several meetings between former Allied prisoners of wars and their Japanese captors, in efforts to promote peace and understanding. In 1993, he met and reconciled with British former POW Eric Lomax—in whose torture sessions Nagase had been involved—an encounter retold in Lomax's 1995 autobiography The Railway Man.
 
When Nagase Takashi returned to Japan from his period of service as a kempeitai interpreter at the Kanchanaburi POW camp near the Thai-Burma border at the conclusion of Asia Pacific War, he returned with a mountain of unfinished psychological business. Years of watching some of the most abject examples of man's inhumanity to man left him deeply scarred and, although he was not to realise it at the time, the remaining years of his life would be devoted to his own personal mission of atonement and reconciliation. 
 
A very rare book.
 
Soft Cover
76 pages
In Fair Condition