At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union captured 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war and interned them in Siberian labor camps. Sherzod Muminov details the soldiers' varied experiences of imprisonment, including their indoctrination in Soviet dogma and the shock and alienation of repatriation to a homeland transformed under US occupation.

Sherzod Muminov is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of East Anglia and winner of the inaugural Murayama Tsuneo Memorial Prize.