For Japanese Soldier, The War Went On [audio 6 min 9 sec]

For Japanese Soldier, The War Went On — Today marks the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese surrendered four years later, but Japanese soldiers captured by the Russians in Manchuria were held as prisoners for more than five years after World War II.

More than 500,000 Japanese soldiers were taken to Soviet penal camps and forced into slave labor. Independent producer Robert Rand tells the tale of one of the surviving Japanese soldiers.