What food were prisoners given in Burma Railway work camps?

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Map showing the height of Japanese territorial expansion in 1942 during World War II, with a large hatched area covering much of East and Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, including parts of China, Korea, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and numerous Pacific islands. Japan's home islands are shaded in solid red, while the expansion area stretches from India and Burma in the west to the Aleut — Burma Railway In World War II Japanese military forces quickly took advantage of their success at Pearl Harbor to expand their holdings throughout the Pacific and westward toward India. This expansion continued relatively unchecked until mid-1942. Then, after losing the Battle of Midway, Japan was forced on the defensive.

Prisoners of war held in work camps during the construction of the Burma Railway were subjected to inhumane treatment, which included being provided with grossly inadequate food.

The daily rations typically consisted of small portions of boiled rice accompanied by spoiled meat or fish. These meager meals were frequently contaminated with rat droppings and infested with maggots. Furthermore, the prisoners suffered from a severe lack of potable water, which, combined with the poor quality of their food, left them malnourished, dehydrated, and highly susceptible to rampant diseases such as dysentery, cholera, and malaria.1