Letters from former Prisoners of War - Japanese
After their repatriation, several former Formosan prisoners of war wrote to Ed Fitchett. Are you a relative of any of these people or have information about them? Contact Us.

DR. Kenichi Takio, M.D.
Address: St. Luke’s International Medical Center, Chino-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
Date: December 1946
Content: Christmas card and brief note explaining he was with me on the ship.
Note: Dr. Takino was my interpreter on board the John L. Sullivan. My movies show me shaking hands and saying “goodbye” to him at Uraga.

Sozo Utashiro
Address: No. 773, 3-chome Tamagawa, Todoroki-machi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Content: Two Christmas cards – probably December 1946 and 1947. Just signed by him.
Note: (I can’t remember him for sure. I think from POW Branch Camp in Manila)

Saburo Saito
Address: 1536 Soryo Matsudamachi, Ashigarakamigun, Kanagawaken, Japan
Content: One page letter dated June 25, 1949. (He had lost my address and got it from Mr. Utashiro.) He returned home to Japan Dec. 7, 1946. Appreciated time I was at the camp. Working for Toyota Motors Co, Ltd., same as before (the war?). Asked if I remembered Mr. Sida of Takashimaya Dept. (store) who met with me? (I took a letter from a POW, probably Saburo Saito, to someone in a department store on Ginza Street.) Mr. Utashiro told him I was happily married now and he offered his congratulations.