Takashi Nagase
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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.[1]
Takashi Nagase | |
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永瀬 隆 | |
Born | (1918-02-20)20 February 1918 |
Died | 21 June 2011(2011-06-21) (aged 93) Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan |
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation(s) | Interpreter, military officer, philanthropist, Buddhist priest |
Known for | Promoting post-war reconciliation between Allied and Japanese veterans of the Burma Railway |
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Rank | Officer |
Unit | Kenpeitai |
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