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A group of Japanese prisoners of war in Australia during 1945. During World War II, it was estimated that between 35,000 and 50,000 members of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces surrendered to Allied service members prior to the end of World War II in Asia in August 1945. [1]
MacKenzie noted that "Food shortages, disease, and a certain amount of vindictive callousness among Allied troops" resulted in thousands of deaths among the Japanese POWs; the situation was much worse for the Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union (approximately half of the 600,000 Japanese troops captured by the Soviets remained ...
Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Japanese: 渡邊睦裕, 18 January 1918 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed "the Bird" by his prisoners was an Imperial Japanese Army soldier in World War II who served in multiple military internment camps. He was infamous for his extremely cruel and evil mistreatment of allied POWs.
The story of the Taiwan POWs; About Prisoners of Santo Tomas; Tjideng Camp ; Personal Memoirs of Signalman Clifford Reddish : a Prisoner held by the Japanese. POW Research Network Japan; Map of WWII Japanese POW camps; Okinoyama – The Story of a Coal Mine, John Oxley Library blog, State Library of Queensland. Includes digitised photographs of ...
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 ...
He was initially sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the incident. However, after his subordinates were convicted of slaughtering prisoners during their time on the Southern Front, he was sentenced to death and subsequently hanged in a separate trial organized by the Netherlands for war crimes committed in the Dutch East ...
The Bataan Death March [a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 72,000 to 78,000 [1] [2] [3] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando.
Fukuoka #17 - Omuta, Branch Prisoner of War Camp was a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp located at the Mitsui Kozan Miike Kogyo-Sho coal mine and Mitsui Zinc Foundry in Shinminato-machi, Omuta-shi, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, during World War II. It was the largest POW camp in Japan.