Staff writer

A rare reconciliation between a former British prisoner of war and a former Japanese military interpreter during World War II will be reproduced this month in a play by an American professor.

Sears Eldredge, a professor of dramatic arts and dance at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., is producing "Return to Kanburi" based on autobiographies written by the two men -- "The Railway Man" by Eric Lomax and "Crosses and Tigers" by Takashi Nagase.