Bridge of the river Kwai, Thai-Burma Railway

The Thai-Burma Railway, famous for the American movie "Bridge on the Battlefield" and the setting of Operation Imphal, was once built by the Japanese military to establish new supply line in WW2. During construction, number of English, Australian, Dutch's POW, local people, and even Japanese army are died because of diseases and starvation under poor conditions. This bridge became famous because of movie, "the bridge on the river Kwai". The movies are little bit dramatized from reality, nevertheless it shows misery of war.

Then the bridge was destroyed completely in the end with exposure to American bombing or due to structural defects.

Now it is only a shortly run through the suburbs of Thailand.

The former Japanese military, which wanted to rule Asia by force in the name of the ideal of a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, failed to achieve its ambitions.

Many Japanese, and even Burmese schoolmate in Yangon do not know about episode of this bridge.

Here we could find what war is.