Operator	Nippon Yusen (NYK)
Classification	Wartime Standard Cargo ship, Class 2A
Gross tonnage	6,968 tons
Speed	10 knots
Departure point	San Fernando, Philippines
Departure date	24 December 1944
Destination	Japan
No. of POWs	Survivors of Oryoku Maru 1,235
Location of disaster	Takao harbor, Taiwan
Date of disaster	9 January 1945
POW casualties	Approx. 400
POW survivors	Approx. 930
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At around 11:00 on 9 January, again, the carrier-based planes attacked the ships in Takao harbor. One bomb exploded just outside No. 1 hold of Enoura Maru, and about. 330 POWs (292 in the forward hold, and about 40 in the after) were killed instantly. A hatch cover dropped in No. 2 hold, and several men were crushed to death, or seriously injured. At the outset, the corpses were to be cremated, however, due to air raids day after day; the victims were buried at Nakasu1) from 11 to 13 January.

On the early morning of 14 January, estimated 930 survivors of Oryoku and Enoura Maru were put aboard Brazil Maru, and left Takao with several other freighters and escorts. They steamed up to the north along the coast of the Chinese Mainland, crossed the Yellow Sea to Chosen Peninsula, and arrived at Moji on 29 January. However, only less than half (probably 425~450) of the POWs were alive, and more than 100 of these men were to die within a few weeks following.