When the son of a captured Dutch soldier, who had been detained in a Japanese labor camp during World War II, learned about the local schoolgirl who, through her piano, helped ease his father's pain, it was almost "too emotional" to bear.For Robert Stenvert's father, who died in 1992, and the other Allied prisoners of war at a camp in Yokohama, the Japanese teenager's piano practice from her nearby home was more than music to their ears -- it gave the men hope to survive the brutal conditions at the camp, one of many around Japan.In early November, Robert, 74, who currently lives in Austral…READ FULL ARTICLE
