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February nineteen forty-two. Japanese women prisoners stepped off transport ships in Australia expecting a primitive colonial backwater with no factories, no military infrastructure, barely surviving the war—but instead found themselves in camps with electric lighting, industrial kitchens, X-ray equipped hospitals, and daily meat rations three times larger than what their families back in Tokyo were eating. One nurse counted 47 electric poles along just the camp perimeter and wrote in shock: "Where does all this power come from?" But the real question that haunted them for the rest of their lives was this: if Australia—a nation we were told was weak and defenseless—could afford to feed enemy prisoners better than Japan fed its own civilians while still building a war machine this massive, what exactly had their leaders sent them to fight against?