Topic: Japanese POW
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Why did the Japanese treat POW's so poorly?
As in ancient Sparta; Japanese military men were NOT allowed to surrender. So they did not know how to handle opposing forces when they did surrender. Read More »
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What were conditions like for the POW of the Japanese army?
Answer The conditions were appaling for anyone who was a POW in the hands of the Japanese.Japan did not sign the Geneva Aggrement,which meant if you were a pow of Germany or Italy during the war, you were expected not to be beaten during yo... Read More »
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Where there japanese POWs from the Pearl Harbor attack?
No, those shot down died in the crash or didn't surrender Read More »
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By the end of World War II there were from 560000 to 760000 Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union and Mongolia interned to work in labor camps. Of them, about ... More »
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Australians had the highest survival rate of all the allies held by the sadistict japanese. Even though they had the highest survival rate, only six people survived in the Sandakan Death March. Read More »
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The japs thought that it was a privallege for them to die before the emperor as this gave them a certain entrance into heaven. 22,000 Australians became prisoners of war in the fall of singapore and became slaves in the japanese prison camp... Read More »
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Usually as a result of the surrender of the British. Read More »
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Try this book for information: "Prisoners of the Japanese-POWs of World War in the Pacific." (1996); By Gavan Daws. ISBN 0-6881-4370-9 . Read More »
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Conscript labor. They needed workers. Some of the allied men were survivors from the "Battle of the Java Sea". See film: "Bridge Over the River Kwai", starring William Holden. Read More »
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