Aussie storytelling project remembers WWII Japanese POW breakout

A smartphone app that recounts the history of a breakout by Japanese prisoners of war from a rural Australian internment camp during World War II was launched Saturday.Called Cowra Voices, the app allows users to follow a route to 11 different sites in the rural town of Cowra to listen to audio recordings of locals recounting the history of the so-called Cowra Breakout, in which 1,104 captured Japanese soldiers tried to escape the camp in 1944. A total of 234 soldiers died during their attempted escape.Speaking at the app's launch, project member and audio editor Masako Fukui said the stori…READ FULL ARTICLE