A friend of mine asked me for help in translating some old family documents. This particular piece is an internment card of a family member that was captured on Java by the Japanese during the second world war. After some successes, I still have trouble translating the following lines, due to the handwriting and, I think, outdated kanji/kana usage.
This line describes the occupation (職業) of the person. I'm pretty certain the second character is 気. I have some conjectures about the last three characters, which I think to be 系, 北, and ぶ. My closest guess for the phrase is 電気系北ぶ, which I would translate as something like "Electrical systems Northern division"
The following two lines are written in a page for "Other Informations" (補修欄).
Here, I believe the writer is talking about a transfer to POW-camp number one. However, I can't make sense of the first two characters, written in a different color. I think they might be a name? With much imagination, I can see them as 川悖, which might be a family name?
This line completely baffles me. In the first character, I think I recognise 耳 and 并, but that doesn't seem to be an actual kanji. I don't recognise the following two characters, and after that 軍 and maybe 引? I can't make heads or tails of it, though my friend said this was the line he was most interested in. This specific line is preceded by the date 31th of october 1945, which is not long after the Japanese surrender.
