In the middle of the Narashino German prisoner camp there existed five barracks, one canteen, a slaughter house, bake house, football field and a tennis court. The camp's 95,000 square meter grounds were surrounded by ditches and wire entanglement. In 1918, seven barracks were erected to accommodate the officers and soldiers from Oita, Shizuoka and Fukuoka. There was also a music hall, theater hall and one printing house. The war prisoners had built all of these facilities. Their laborious works were examples of their efforts put into building the shooting range for the Narashino troopfs drill field, and the cultivation of farms, plus the caring for the livestock within the camp. Food preparations were made by the Germans, Bear was allowed to drink. but they were not isolated from the nearby villagers by the barbed wire fence. By the secret sale of alcoholic drinks, haircutting, cleaning, arbor making, etc., the villagers went into the camp, and often developed friendships between the captives and the villagers, even though they could not communicate in the same language. All of this fraternizing was made possible through the administration policy of Commander Saigo.
