An Imperial Army veteran who oversaw construction of the Burma Railway has travelled to London to meet a former British prisoner of war, The Telegraph reported on 22 June.
Some 72 years since serving in Burma, 95-year-old Mikio Kinoshita met 96-year-old Sir Harold Atcherley, who was among those forced to clear a path for the railway track.
Atcherley invited Kinoshita after seeing him in a BBC documentary about the railway. “I wanted to extend the hand of friendship and human understanding after so many years of misunderstanding and hatred”, he said.