The Japanese heavy industry took a battering
During the Second World War whilst they were fighting
So Japanese companies like Toyota went to the army
And requested Allied POWs to work in their factories
Slave labour was what occurred for these men
When these industries paid the army for them then
The men were badly treated, starved and many died
With 37% of them not seeing freedom whilst the Japanese lied
Because when compared with the Nazis Allied POWs died at 2%
The Japanese companies hid behind the war looking for victory sent
Now Toyota looks like a clean and well run company
But they have this inhuman incident in their past history.
© Paul Warren Poetry
The Japanese also conducted inhumane experiments on Chinese, Koreans and prisoners, unit 731 if I recall, which used people as lab rats for researches in communicable diseases and other sufferings unimaginable, then there is the raping of Nanking, but these crimes are never reported in the same way as those of Nazis. Good work.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Yet another fascinating little known fact and I used to love my Toyota you have great history lessons - the ones we should have been taught in school. very educational