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by CrazyCatDog 782 days ago
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.
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bobthepanda 782 days ago
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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