Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on Google Japan’s ambassador to the Netherlands has attended a ceremony to commemorate labourers who died during the ...
The Thai-Burma Railway was completed on October 17, 1943, when the tracks from the Thai side and the Burma (now Myanmar) side were connected by the Imperial Japanese Army, with an opening ceremony ...
The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, ...