In March 1943 the Red Cross said that they wished to pay a visit to the senior officers' camp at Karenko, and because conditions were so deplorable in that camp, it was decided to send 117 of the higher-ranking POWs and governors who were being held there to another camp inland south of Karenko called Tamazato. This new camp provided a better opportunity to show how well the prisoners were supposedly being treated. On April 2nd these men were moved by a small local train 90 kms south to the new camp. The long, slow journey took seven hours.
At Tamazato the men had better food and were given some of the Red Cross parcels that the Japanese had been witholding from them at Karenko. They did not have to do any work and were allowed to rest and relax, and consequently were in better health and more fit by the time of the Red Cross inspection in June.
The Red Cross representative visited the camp on June 1st, and shortly after on June 5th, all but 28 of the highest ranking officers and governors and their aides were transferred back to Karenko once again. A couple of days later all the men in that camp were moved to Shirakawa Camp in south-central Taiwan. On June 23rd the 28 senior officers and governors were sent from Tamazato back to Karenko and on to Taihoku Moksak Camp #5 and Karenko Camp was closed.
After the Nationalists came to Taiwan following the Chinese civil war, the camp became a military base for a number of years before closing in 2006. Nothing remains of the former Tamazato Camp today.