What is "ofuna"

Ōfuna can refer to:

• Ōfuna Kannon, a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
• Ōfuna Station, a railway station in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
• Ōfuna (Prisoner of War Camp), World War 2 prisoner of war camp

The was an Imperial Japanese Navy installation located in Kamakura, outside Yokohama, Japan during World War II, where high-value enlisted and officers, particularly pilots and submariner prisoners of war were interrogated and incarcerated by Japanese naval intelligence Richard O'Kane, Louis Zamperini and Gregory Boyington were among the prisoners held at Ōfuna.