Philippine museum exhibit features WWII diary of Japanese POW

MANILA - Copies of sketches and writings from the World War II diary of a Japanese engineer who was stationed in the Philippines at the time and became a prisoner-of-war are on display at a museum in Manila for the first time outside Japan.

The "Ryojin Nikki" diary of Shinichi Komatsu, commercially published in 1975, is featured in the exhibit that runs through Aug. 16 to invite "audiences to reflect on the complexities of war and its impact on individuals - beyond nationality and era," according to the Ayala Museum.