Japanese POWs - David Hill

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Japanese POWs - David Hill

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Radio New Zealand

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Two kilometres north of Featherston on State Highway 2, there is a roadside memorial carved in stone that reads "Behold the summer grass; All that remains of the dreams of warriors". These are words from a seventeenth-century Japanese haiku. The memorial marks the site of a former Japanese prisoner of war camp where a riot broke out in 1943, in which 48 Japanese prisoners of war and one guard were killed. The story of what happened at Featherston is told in a new book for young people called ...

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Audio

Date created

07 March 2016

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Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm

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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201792170/japanese-pows-david-hill

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