29 JULY 1995, page 15

This Is Your Torturer

Dorothy Byrne arranges a meeting between two Japanese war criminals and the Britons they brutalised Tokyo ONE HAS certain expectations of a con- victed war criminal's behaviour......

The Spanish Are Different

Simon Courtauld meets Spain's biggest fishing-boat owner, and learns about a nation obsessed with the sea Vigo THE 3,000-ton trawler Sil had docked the previous night beneath......