Translating a memoir penned by a former British RAF POW interned on Innoshima Island: An opportunity to reflect on peace from various perspectives
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Terence Kelly, a British soldier, was captured by the Japanese army in Java, Indonesia, and forced to live and work as a POW for nearly three years at a camp on Innoshima Island in Onomichi City, Hiroshima. His memoir has been translated into Japanese by the Onomichi Red Brick Society, an organization that has continued to communicate with former POWs, and it was published in 2021 under the title Jigokusen de Hiroshima e (By Hellship to Hiroshima). We spoke to Kobayashi Koshi, who had liaised with Kelly directly about the publication of this book, as well as Mizobuchi Naoko, who was in charge of part of the translation. Okano Makoto, an Innoshima native, also took us on a tour of the places connected to this episode in Japanese history.