OMUTA, FUKUOKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, 1945-09. AN AMERICAN SOLDIER (LEFT) GUARDING THE JAPANESE ...

OMUTA, FUKUOKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, 1945-09. AN AMERICAN SOLDIER (LEFT) GUARDING THE JAPANESE INTERPRETER YAMAGUCHI, KNOWN AS "RIVERSIDE", AND LIEUTENANT COMMANDER EDWARD LITTLE, OUTSIDE THE PRISON AT FUKUOKA CAMP 17, A PRISONER-OF-WAR (POW) CAMP FOR ALLIED SERVICEMEN AT OMUTA. BOTH "RIVERSIDE" AND LITTLE ARE UNDER ARREST, "RIVERSIDE" FOR HIS SADISTIC TREATMENT OF POWS, AND LITTLE, AN AMERICAN OFFICER WHO HAD RUN THE CAMP'S COOKHOUSE AND MESS, FOR INFORMING ON HIS FELLOW PRISONERS. HE WAS LATER COURT-MARTIALLED. THE GUARD IS A MEMBER OF AN AMERICAN RECOVERY TEAM THAT HAD JUST LIBERATED THE CAMP AND ITS AMERICAN, AUSTRALIAN, DUTCH AND BRITISH INMATES. OMUTA WAS A PROVINCIAL MANUFACTURING TOWN ON THE ISLAND OF KYUSHU.