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CrazyCatDog on April 29, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (194...

They did, the translator communicates to the prisoners in English, and they pass along in Japanese to the guards. The article says they asked the translator.

bobthepanda on April 29, 2024 [–]

They didn’t know the word which is different from not having any knowledge of how Chinese characters are written.

Chinese is not 1:1 with Japanese so that’s not surprising.

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