In 2004, the POW Research Network Japan released the names of POWs by location on its website. It reportedly received more than 100 emails of inquiry from outside the country.

About 130 POW camps were built in Japan during the war, and POWs were forced to toil in coal mines, factories and elsewhere. Many died of disease, starvation and violence.

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.

Barack Obama was the first American president to visit Hiroshima since the nuclear attack on the city. In his speech in May ...

Eighty years ago a company of U.S. Army Rangers and Filipino guerrilla fighters conducted the most successful rescue mission in American military history, freeing over 500 prisoners of war being held ...

As Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, more than one million Japanese nationals were taken prisoners by the Red Army and sent to camps TOKYO, March 7. /TASS/. The Japanese government received ...

Caroline Tyner, 74, wanted to get a clearer picture of the experiences she remembers hearing as a child from her father, Charles Williams, who was interned as a POW in Japan. He passed away about ...

Further, they agreed that prisoners should be returned to their native countries. The white flag and red cross would serve both hospitals and ambulances as symbols of neutrality. Japan's ...

The museum will showcase flags central to the liberation of American soldiers who were kept prisoners of war following the ...

However, Japan surrendered soon after. Nishikura's family sending him off for military enlistment Taken prisoner, Nishikura and other POWs were made to march about 200 kilometers over 10 days ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...