In was sometime in the spring. The railroad station at Nakano was busy all the time, it was the hub of all rail traffic to Northern Japan. One night it went from calm to chaos as hundreds of young men in Japanese Army uniforms (without insignia) arrived on a train. They spit at us and gave us an elbow as they walked by. We were surprised to say the least. The station attendants sorted it out and it ended. It was later explained to us that they were the Japanese 2nd Army which had been held as POWs in Korea after the war and had just been released by the Russian Army. GHQ in Tokyo must have known, and we were not informed.
T4 Francis J. Boucher, A Company, 720th MP Battalion, 8th Army, Occupied Japan, 1947-1948.