Submissions of photographs, paintings and drawings for this division of The JAPS Gallery will be welcomed by the Editor. The drawings currently displayed on this page have been supplied by the Stichting Japanse Ereschulden in The Hague.

Personal notes were suspect and no captives were permitted to record any aspect of their lives that had military significance. But with the threat of total extermination always present, a few made tiny drawings that could be hidden in secret places and would reveal, if found when the war was over, some indication of what their ordeals had been.

This artist illustrated the water torture. The victim was first bound with barbed wire, and then filled with water passed through a hose into his nose.

When the stomach could expand no more, the beating started, first with square poles, then with kicks to the body, and finally with jumps onto the distended stomach until it ruptured.

Here the victim kneels on sharp sticks for a period of up to 3 hours, unsheltered from the tropical sun and without water, while holding a heavy stone. Collapse, or the failure to keep the stone raised, was punished by a beating, after which, if still conscious, the victim was remounted onto the sticks.

This sketch illustrates the condition of a man released from a cramped prison in which he had not seen the light of day for three years. (This may be an example of what the San Francisco Peace Treaty classified as "undue hardship" experienced by captives.)

The artist of this primitive sketch sought to record the punishment inflicted on a man who had been found near the site of a secret radio in a camp in Thailand. The toes just touched the ground.

The same artist recorded here the punishment for a man accused of threatening a sentry (which could have been the interpretation placed on the action of a prisoner raising his eyes to look at a sentry). He was tied to a tree with barbed wire for two days and nights without food and water. A bucket of water was thoughtfully placed in front of him to remind him of what he needed.