The new POW camp was astonishingly bland, ash covering every inch of the camp. The officer of the camp was very dogmatic and didn’t allow eye contact; this man was in Tinker’s mind a psychopath. With a few blows to Louie’s head, then more after starting a fire to keep warm Louie knew that the officer would try his hardest to shatter him. Watanabe, the leading disciplinary officer was a sexual sadist; he would do unthinkable things to the POWs and would take great pleasure in doing so. The most incredible thing about Watanabe to me was his inconsistency, he would break the bones and the psyche of POWs and sometimes apologize in tears. But then would resume beatings in a matter of minutes. Such a bipolar nature, why would the Japanese allow him to serve in any type of command?
the men in the POW camp were not “passive captives” they were soldiers. They raged guerilla warfare against their captors by crafting goods that were of poor quality, stitching leather wrong, and stealing sugar and fish. These men were invigorated by how if death was a possibility they weren’t going to die without a fight. And with this thievery, thieving school was born. More inept thieves would teach new ones how to steal. And the final exam was a heist, the only way to fail – get caught. And so a network of black-market goods that were stolen opened up in Omori with sugar being the currency. With Watanabe beating everyone and anyone even some of the Japanese guards were helping the POWs. One in particular was Yukichi Kano. He would distract men while the prisoners stole, when winter was coming he would hang blankets in the infirmary, and when someone was sick – instead of taking them to the sadistic official doctor, he would take them to one of the POWs that was a physician. I think Louie’s childhood was creeping up on him again; every beating he got from Watanabe was more incentive for him to hate “the Bird”. The rising hatred in Louie must have been from not being able to hit back – it must have been really hard on him mentally even more so then it was physically.
the men in the POW camp were not “passive captives” they were soldiers. They raged guerilla warfare against their captors by crafting goods that were of poor quality, stitching leather wrong, and stealing sugar and fish. These men were invigorated by how if death was a possibility they weren’t going to die without a fight. And with this thievery, thieving school was born. More inept thieves would teach new ones how to steal. And the final exam was a heist, the only way to fail – get caught. And so a network of black-market goods that were stolen opened up in Omori with sugar being the currency. With Watanabe beating everyone and anyone even some of the Japanese guards were helping the POWs. One in particular was Yukichi Kano. He would distract men while the prisoners stole, when winter was coming he would hang blankets in the infirmary, and when someone was sick – instead of taking them to the sadistic official doctor, he would take them to one of the POWs that was a physician. I think Louie’s childhood was creeping up on him again; every beating he got from Watanabe was more incentive for him to hate “the Bird”. The rising hatred in Louie must have been from not being able to hit back – it must have been really hard on him mentally even more so then it was physically.
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