In 1996, Australian journalist Ian Ward published Snaring the Other Tiger, which suggested that the Australian Army prosecutor, Captain James Godwin—a former Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot who had been ill-treated as a POW in Sumatra—had "manipulated" evidence to implicate Nishimura.
In 1996, Australian journalist Ian Ward published a book titled "Snaring the Other Tiger," which suggested that Captain James Godwin, an ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot who had been mistreated as a POW in Sumatra, had manipulated evidence to frame Nishimura.