How many Japanese were imprisoned in POW camps during World War 2?

Answer 1

About 110,000 were interned in 26 different camps while 33,000 served in the US Military.

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There were around 120,000 Japanese Americans interned in 10 different camps around America.

Answer 2

About 27,000 US Troops were taken as POWs during WW-2 and 11,000 died while in captivity. Many died while in transit to the Japanese mainland on the Hellships, some of which were sunk by Allied attack.

Answer 3

Beginning after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and lasting until 1949 (four years after World War II had ended), Canadians ofJapaneseheritage were removed from their homes and businesses and sent to internment camps in the B.C. interior, and to farms and internment camps across Canada.

Answer 4

Of the 22,096 Japanese Canadians before WW 2 who lived in British Columbia of which three quarters of them were naturalized or native born Canadians. The government forcibly removed 21,460 from their homes, appropriated their property (fishing boats and businesses), broke up families and sent the entire group to internment camps.

It did not stop there. After the war, 3,964 were deported to Japan even though one third of them were Canadian citizens.

There are similarities to Stalin's resettlement of Central European Koreans to Kazakstan and other Central Asian SSRs and the American's The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of between 110,000 and 120,000 men women and children

Answer 5

This book may help: "The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II." (2005) By Ulrich Straus. ISBN 0-2959-8508-9.

Answer 6

See film: Go For Broke; story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team

Answer 7

See website: Japanese-American internment camps

Answer 8

About 120,000 is estimated.

Answer 9

12000