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This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.
Japanese POWs held in Allied prisoner of war camps were treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention. [60] By 1943 the Allied governments were aware that personnel who had been captured by the Japanese military were being held in harsh conditions.
Despite Japanese treatment of the Allied prisoners, the Allies respected the international conventions and treated Japanese prisoners in the camps well. However, in some instances, Japanese soldiers were executed after surrendering (see Allied war crimes). [2]
The following list includes prisoner-of-war camps during World War II, ... List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II; List of Japanese hell ships;
An example of Japanese P.O.W. propaganda. The Ōfuna Camp (大船収容所, Ōfuna shūyōsho) 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 incarcerated and interrogated by Japanese naval intelligence. [1]
Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led the US government to force more than 100K people of Japanese descent into detention camps.
This is a category of POW and internment camps that Japan maintained for the soldiers and civilians that it captured in World War II. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Japanese POW cap, which was originally maroon, is the only known clothing relic from the Cowra POW camp The Japanese Garden in 2004 Harry Doncaster Memorial. In the first week of August 1944, a tip-off from an informer (recorded in some sources to be a Korean informant using the name Matsumoto) [3] at Cowra led authorities to plan to move all Japanese POWs at Cowra, except officers and NCOs ...