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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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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. [1]
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.
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]
However, when it became apparent that the war would not end soon, twelve large camps were set up on the outskirts of twelve Japanese cities (between Tokyo and Kumamoto). The conditions in each camp differed considerably. In some prison camps, prisoners enjoyed relatively liberal and humane treatment, while physical abuse occurred in other places.