He leads them into the jungle, into a place where he knows there will be no further digging, and shows them where to put Lieutenant Ninomiya’s new grave. The bald man is a good leader as well as a strong worker and he gets the grave dug quickly, then transfers the remains without squeamishness or complaint. If he has been through the China Incident and survived for this long as a prisoner of war, he has probably seen and done much worse.