如水会 実務英語研究会

　 No.22 March 1,1995
　 Dear Yuichi:

I received your card of 2/24/95 today and I immediately called Helen. We both regret you felt it best to decline the invitation to be at the Nimitz Symposium; but we do not understand and appreciate your concerns. I had been looking forward to showing you some of our area of Texas, Perhaps we can do it some other time and with more relaxed circumstances. I presume Sam will not come at this time? I belive I told you that Dr.Goad had to cancel his appearance at the Symposiume due to the severe illness of his brother in Illinois.

Enclosed is an up-to-date listing of the current addresses of some of the individuals who were in Omori. You should find it interesting . A list of corrections which I have received until now is also included. It is getting harder and harder to keep up with the men of our generation as their addresses and status ( illnesses and deaths ) change more frequently. This is part of the reason, besides the cost of postage, why I only send it to everyone only once every 18-24 months. Afterwards for about two weeks, I am kept busy answering the responses.

Another project has also kept me busy. Helen asked me to help her in locating any X-POW who were in Camp #6, Kitayama Mura, near Suwa, Nagano. The Buddist Society in Nagano wants to invite some of the men who were there to come to Japan so that they could be thanked for saving the life of a Japanese buy who was drowning in the river. The camp was opened only from June to September, 1945. This has made it difficult to locate anyone as there were so few men in the camp. I have made nearly 12 telephone calls across the U.S. and have put notices in the national POWs Bulletin, the Am. Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor news letter and in two British POW news letters. So far, I have received only four responses and none of them were in that camp. If you know of anyone who may have there and remembers the name of any POW, I would appreciate hearing from them.

I am also enclosing a reduced copy of the interrogation report made by Ushio after the war. I will let you decide if it would be appropriate to give it to him. He may not be interested in having it.

I am disappointed you are not coming to Texas,but I will be more anxious to see you in London in September.

Sincerely,
Rob


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