Takashi Nagase (永瀬 隆, Nagase Takashi, 20 Feb 1918 – 21 June 2011) was a Japanese Kempeitai (military secret police) interpreter and war criminal during World War II. He was born in 1918 in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan and learned English from an American Methodist in a college in Tokyo. He was one of the officers in charge of the construction of the "Death Railway" which ran between Thailand and Burma and included the famous bridge over the River Kwai, and is known for the use of forced labour of Allied prisoners of war, though the majority of the labour (and resultant deaths) was incurred by romusha, or local civilians pressed into labour.
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20 February 1918 Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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Died |
21 June 2011 (aged 93)
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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