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The treatment of Japanese POWs in Siberia was also similar to that suffered by Soviet prisoners who were being held in the area. [85] Between 1946 and 1950, many of the Japanese POWs in Soviet captivity were released; those remaining after 1950 were mainly those convicted of various crimes.
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 .
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.
A Japanese soldier that surrendered at Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands. 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]
Italian soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies during Operation Compass (1941). Most prisoners, after being captured, spent the war in the prisoner of war camps.In the early phases of the war, following German occupation of much of Europe, Germany also found itself unprepared for the number of POWs it held.
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]
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 ...
Tikka Khan – Japanese POW during WWII, Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistani Army; Wajid Khan – Canadian politician, Pakistan-India War 1971 fighter pilot; Yahya Khan – German POW during WWII, last president of a united Pakistan; Maximilian Kolbe – Roman Catholic priest from Poland, interned in Auschwitz, and canonized as a saint