Following the harrowing voyage of the hellship Hokusen Maru to Taiwan from October 1st to November 8th 1944, a group of 336 American and 46 British POWs were sent to a camp that was set up in a school - also in the town of Inrin (Yuanlin). This camp was close to the main Inrin Camp - in fact the two camps were less than a kilometre apart. When the men first arrived in the camp nothing was set up or ready for them, so some of the POWs from the main camp came over and helped them set up their kitchen and prepared their first meals until the camp got better established.
The men, having endured such an ordeal on the hellship, were not required to do any real hard work as such. They were engaged mostly in keeping the camp in order and farming on the hillsides above the camp. There they grew vegetables to supplement their diet and as a result many of the men recovered and became more fit again.There were no POW deaths in this camp.
In mid-January 1945 the camp was emptied and the men were sent to either Takao or Keelung and put on other ships for transport to Japan. There they finished the war in a number of camps - some on Kyushu and some in the Sendai area in the north of Japan. They were subsequently evacuated by Allied forces after the Japanese surrendered.