Editing Burma Railway (section)

===Japanese===
Japanese soldiers, 12,000 of them, including 800 Koreans, were employed on the railway as engineers, guards, and supervisors of the POW and civilian labourers. Although working conditions were far better for the Japanese than the POWs and civilian workers, about 1,000 (eight percent) of them died during construction. Many remember Japanese soldiers as being cruel and indifferent to the fate of Allied military prisoners and the Southeast Asian civilians. Many men in the railway workforce bore the brunt of pitiless or uncaring guards. Cruelty could take different forms, from extreme violence and torture to minor acts of physical punishment, humiliation, and neglect.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://hellfire-pass.commemoration.gov.au/the-enemy/treatment-of-prisoners.php| title=The Enemy: Treatment of prisoners| access-date=9 January 2015| website=The Thai-Burma Railway & Hellfire Pass| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115192131/http://hellfire-pass.commemoration.gov.au/the-enemy/treatment-of-prisoners.php| archive-date=15 January 2015}}</ref>