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at Camp 5B.
On October 30 Major William ("Bill") Stewart, R.A.M.C., was transferred to Camp 5B from Camp Kawasaki IB in the Tokyo area. Stewart, a doctor from Northern Ireland, had served with the British army defending Singapore, but he had managed to escape to Java in a sailboat. He eventually was captured with 160 officers and crew of a British ship sunk by a German raider as they attempted to sail to Australia.
In October, 1944, the Japanese authorities reported that Branch Camp 5B held 215 American and 354 British, Canadian, Dutch, and other Allied P.O.W.'s.
Of the 352 Americans who had arrived at Niigata Camp 5B on October 9, 1943, a full 137 had already perished at the hands of an enemy devoid of all decency, compassion, or mercy.
By the end of May, 1945, an additional 200 American, British, and Australian enlisted men and 26 officers, including two doctors who had been bombed out of P.O.W. camps in the Tokyo-Yokohama area, had arrived at the now overcrowded Camp 5B. During the first part of July, 1945, about 150 American construction workers captured at the fall of Wake Island were transferred there from the Kiangwan Camp in Shanghai via Fengtai, China. For the last few months of the war the Niigata camp comprised a conglomerate of P.O.W.'s from all the Allied forces in the Far East.
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From its opening on September 3, 1943, until its closing almost two years later on August 30, 1945, Camp 5B at Niigata had three camp commandants. The first was psychotic Lt. Masato Yoshida. After the war he was apprehended, tried, and hanged for his complicity in a series of war crimes. Yoshida had been commandant at Niigata for about seven brutal months.
In April, 1944, he was succeeded by 2nd Lt. Nemoto, who took more interest