Production in 2007

NHK Special Tracy, the Secret Interrogation Center; what did Japanese POW's tell the enemy?

Broadcast: August 7th, 2007 10:00～10:49p.m.   Project initiated by Seiichi NAKATA Director: Hiroshi MASUDA Special thanks to: Ulrich Strauss (author of "THE ANGUISH OF SURRENDER")

Near San Francisco rests an abandoned brick building that once was an extremely secret interrogation center for Japanese POW's during WWII. The center, codenamed "Tracy", hosted more than two thousand soldiers and obtained all sorts of information on Japan; military bases and ports, ships, order of battle, industries, morale. Two prisoners were put in one cell to monitor the conversation between them, to verify their answers to interrogators and get more information. The program analyses the interrogation reports and other documents from Tracy, and depicts the information war that the U.S. had overwhelming victory.