Seri Thai: Thailand’s Secret War Against Japan On the morning of 8 December 1941, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese troops swept ashore at several points along the Thai coast. They were moving quickly through Southeast Asia, and Thailand stood directly in their path. Thai military and police units resisted the landings in … Read more
Hellfire Haunting of Konyu Cutting If you walk down into Konyu Cutting today, the first thing you notice is not what you can hear, but what you can’t. The jungle is there. You can see it pressing in on both sides. But inside the cutting, the sound seems to fall away. The wind doesn’t reach … Read more
History G The POW Surgeon Who Cheated Death I’ve always found it remarkable that when we stand among the quiet forests and mist-covered hills of Kanchanaburi today, it’s almost impossible to imagine the suffering that unfolded here in 1943. Yet these peaceful mountains became the route of the infamous Japanese Death Railway where thousands of … Read more
The Secret Japanese Garden This beautiful but at the same time strange garden is actually named the Shinto Peace Garden, located in Kanchanaburi city not far from one of the WW2 military cemeteries. Despite it’s location it gets few visitors, and considering it’s strong links to the horrors of the Death Railway, not many people … Read more