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Includes digitised photographs of within the Okinoyama Prisoner of War Camp. A comprehensive English-language site in Japan with exact opening/closure resp. renaming/reclassification dates of the various camps based on Japanese official sources which should be imported into the current listing: Camps in Japan proper; Camps outside Japan
A civilian internee is a civilian detained by a party to a war for security reasons. Internees are usually forced to reside in internment camps. Historical examples include Japanese American internment and internment of German Americans in the United States during World War II.
There were three types of camps for Japanese and Japanese-American civilians in the United States during World War II. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities.
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.
Prisoners of war at Batu Lintang camp (2 P) Pages in category "World War II prisoners of war held by Japan" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 367 total.
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.
Batu Lintang camp (also known as Lintang Barracks and Kuching POW camp) at Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo was a Japanese-run internment camp during the Second World War. It was unusual in that it housed both Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees .
Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates due to the POW conventions adhered to or ignored, depending on the theater of conflict, and the behaviour of their captors. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps .