From Siberia with Love: Movie Draws Visitors to Museum to Learn about Soviet Internment of Japanese Soldiers

Fragments of the Last Will, directed by Zeze Takashisa. (© 2022 Fragments of the Last Will Film Production Committee; © 1989 Shimizu Kyōko.)

Young visitors to the Memorial Museum for Soldiers, Detainees in Siberia, and Postwar Repatriates gather around a diorama recreating a scene inside a Siberian labor camp. (© Saitō Katsuhisa)

Nishikura Masaru talks about his interment in a Siberian labor camp. (courtesy of Nishikura Masaru)

Visitors to the Memorial Museum for Soldiers, Detainees in Siberia, and Postwar Repatriates take a virtual-reality tour of the kind of Siberian labor camp where Japanese soldiers were interned after World War II. (© Saitō Katsuhisa)