I want to make the railway an antiwar symbol in order to remind the Japanese of the need to reflect on their past conduct. |
Many infamous war-related sites including the A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima have been registered as World Heritage sites, so why not this railway? |
When I introduced my plan at an annual memorial service to commemorate POWs at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Yokohama last August, representatives of Britain and other Allied countries all welcomed the idea. |