By the end of World War II about 600 thousand Japanese soldiers and officers have been held captive in thousands of prison camps on a territory, stretched from Kamchatka in the East, across Urals to European part of USSR in the West and Yenisei Basin in the North.
The History Chapters not only hold Japanese Army sound victories but also atrocities of defeat that I intend to tell about to the new generation. I decided to draw these pictures in memory of those of my comrades-in-arms, who were not destined to return home…

(…)Youngsters of my generation, influenced by fascist’s ideology, ignorant of death have been turned into so called “lethal killing machines”. This should never do again!!! However we had a fond belief in that we were risking our lives for our country.