Japanese POWs often believed that by surrendering they had broken all ties with Japan, and many provided military intelligence to the Allies. The prisoners taken by the Western Allies were held in generally good conditions in camps located in …

Facing Allied invasion, the Japanese sought to move POWs into the mountains to prevent easy liberation. From January to March, a total of 470 POWs were marched into the mountains; with limited rations, and suffering from serious illnesses, just 6 were still alive by June 26.

Japan ratified the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which contained provisions regarding humane treatment of prisoners of war. [4] Japan did sign the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, but did not ratify it. [5]: 184 Australian and Dutch soldiers in Japanese captivity (Tarsau, Thailand 1943) Japanese treatment of POWs in World War II was significantly less humane …

Western Allies had taken 35,000 Japanese prisoners between December 1941 and 15 August 1945, i.e., before the Japanese capitulation. [6] The Soviet Union held the Japanese POWs in a much longer time period and used them as a labor force.

There were more than 140,000 white prisoners in Japanese POW camps. Of these, one in three died from starvation, work, punishments or from disease.

Prisoners of war (POWs) who were held captive by Japanese forces during the Second World War faced extremely difficult conditions. POWs often worked in perilous conditions, and tropical diseases, injury and malnutrition were widespread.

For the Japanese soldier fighting in World War II, the worst humiliation was capture by the enemy. So when American servicemen surrendered, many in the early days of the war on the Philippines, their new captors felt only contempt for them, projecting their own culture onto enemy combatants.

Tens of thousands of these nearly forgotten Japanese dead had once been prisoners of war in Soviet captivity, seized in the global conflict’s final weeks.

Captured by a Japanese military that often viewed them as less than human, these POWs were subjected to unimaginable horrors: forced labor, starvation, physical abuse, and even lethal medical experiments. But what drove the Japanese military to such extreme measures? And what were the chances of people surviving in these horrible conditions?

2016年12月9日 · Allied troops who had the misfortune to be taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II quickly learned that the Geneva Convention might as well not exist.