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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.
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 list may not reflect recent changes .
Japan also held 15,000 French POWs, after it took over French Indochina in March 1945. [12]: 169, 200 [23] [24]: 61 Japan also held a number of Soviet prisoners of war. 87 Soviet POWs were released during a prisoner exchange following the 1939 border clashes Khalkhin Gol (at that point, however, USSR was not a WWII participant). [12]: 40
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: 35,000-50,000 held by the Western Allies; [27]: 61 560,000 to 760,000 were held by the USSR after Japan surrendered [28] Norwegian POWs: while Germans quickly captured Norwegian army following the German invasion of Norway, the Norwegians were quickly released. About 1,500 were arrested in 1943; about 1,000 were held until the ...
The day commemorates the April 9, 1942, surrender of more than 12,000 American troops and 66,000 Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines to the Japanese. Afterward, prisoners ...
They reached Japan after four months on the run, but only returned to Germany two years after the end of the war. [24] August 5, 1944 – Cowra breakout, Australia. 359 Japanese POWs escaped in one of the largest breakouts of the war. All who were not killed or did not commit suicide were caught.
The concept of "Japanese Surrendered Personnel" (JSP) was developed by the government of Japan in 1945 after the end of World War II in Asia. [1] It stipulated that Japanese prisoners of war in Allied custody would be designated as JSP, since being a prisoner was largely incompatible with the Empire of Japan's military manuals and militaristic social norms; all JSP were not subject to the ...