The Japanese treated ALL Allied prisoners B A D L Y. The Empire of Japan was not a signatory to the Geneva Convention, therefore they were not bound to treat their prisoners humanely. The Code of Bushito dictated that Japanese Soldiers would never be captured. If they were, that brought shame not only to the man who surrendered, but to his family also. The Japanese applied this Code to Allied Prisoners, military & civilian alike, making them sub-human in the eyes of their captors. Simply put, Allied POWs were loathed by their Japanese captors. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com Answer AS RICHARD SAID ABOUT THE CODE OF BUSHITO. ALSO I BELEIVE ACCORDING TO THE SAME CODE,A PRISONER THAT WAS EXECUTED BY BEHEADING WAS CONSIDERED TO HAVE DIED WITH HONOR. HOWEVER WESTERNERS FOUND IT A QUITE APPALLING WAY TO GO.(I AGREE)
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Apart from the idological approach, which overstates the realities on the ground, there was a practiclal one. The Japanese army need a labour force. The POW were impressed as slaves to build military railways, work in mines, war production. Australian prisoners were used along with other prisoners and inhabitants of the conquered countries as labourers on the Siam-Burma railway construction and in Japan in mining and industry. This had nothing to do with ideology. As a Japanese said 'many men must die' meaning that the work would be unrelentingly severe to achieve the aim of the railway construction - to support the Burma campaign - nothing to do with Bushido.
Beaten with bamboo canes, starved, lack of medical treatment in some places, threatened, made to feel they were all about to be excuted. Female POWs raped. Beheadings. Buried up to their head in the ground. Beaten, locked in small "sheds", strapped to the ground mostly naked in the sun. There even reports that one or more where crucified!
White POWs were treated abominably by the Japanese.
Every one that was unfortunate enough to have become a prisoner of the Japanese was mistreated. The Japanese had a culture of fight to the death so they had no respect for prisoners of war. They also had a culture where abuse towards their own people by their upper classes was endemic so they had no concept of of reasonable treatment of the enemy. This insular attitude and disrespect for all but the Japanese is to this day still very strong.It should be kept in mind that they themselves were also on the brink of starving during especial the later parts of the war.
The Japanese felt that it was not only dishonourable but disgraceful to surrender without fighting to the very end . Surrendering to the enemy was in direct contrast to the Bushido Code , the "Way of the Warrior", by which they lived and fought .
The Japane were not subscribers to the Geneva Convention. The Japanese military code forbade surrender, and they punished any of their soldiers who did. They applied the same code to foreign soldiers, and worked them relentlessly.
The Japanese soldiers had Bushido Kodeks which said that a soldier should rather die then give up. For them a POW had no honor.
Australian POWs were treated as appallingly as other whites in Japanese camps. They were used as slave labour.
If you would care to read the documents on the Australian POW's in Germany were much better treated, in a more humane way then the ways that the Japanese were treating the Australians. Although it still must be looked upon. Hope I Could help :)
See: "Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific." (1996) by Gavan Daws; ISBN 0-6881-4370-9.
By and large, the U.S. and U.K. treated Germans in compliance with the Geneva Conventions. By and large, the Germans treated U.S. and U.K. prisoners with at least minimal decency, allowed ICRC inspections, mail, and packages. The Germans abused and murdered many Soviet and Serbian prisoners. The Soviet Union in general, treated German POWs and Hungarian prisoners harshly and deprived many of them of adequate rations, medical treatment, minimal comfort, but this corresponded to the cruelty, deprivation, and brutality with which the Germans treated Soviet prisoners. The Soviets killed and imprisoned for years after the war many thousands of Japanese POWs. The Japanese were monstrous, murdering many U.K., Australian, Filipino, and U.S. POWs and a large proportion of the Chinese prisoners they took. The Americans and Australians bombed and strafed many of the by-passed Japanese troops in the South Pacific and other areas. Many starved, turned cannibal and died of disease. The Americans took very few Japanese POWs. The tales told by U.S. Marines are ghastly. The Chinese killed many of the Jaoanese POWs that they took. and and mistrated many of the Japanese pri
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Australian POWs were treated as appallingly as other whites in Japanese camps. They were used as slave labour.
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If you would care to read the documents on the Australian POW's in Germany were much better treated, in a more humane way then the ways that the Japanese were treating the Australians. Although it still must be looked upon. Hope I Could help :)
See: "Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific." (1996) by Gavan Daws; ISBN 0-6881-4370-9.
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By and large, the U.S. and U.K. treated Germans in compliance with the Geneva Conventions. By and large, the Germans treated U.S. and U.K. prisoners with at least minimal decency, allowed ICRC inspections, mail, and packages. The Germans abused and murdered many Soviet and Serbian prisoners. The Soviet Union in general, treated German POWs and Hungarian prisoners harshly and deprived many of them of adequate rations, medical treatment, minimal comfort, but this corresponded to the cruelty, deprivation, and brutality with which the Germans treated Soviet prisoners. The Soviets killed and imprisoned for years after the war many thousands of Japanese POWs. The Japanese were monstrous, murdering many U.K., Australian, Filipino, and U.S. POWs and a large proportion of the Chinese prisoners they took. The Americans and Australians bombed and strafed many of the by-passed Japanese troops in the South Pacific and other areas. Many starved, turned cannibal and died of disease. The Americans took very few Japanese POWs. The tales told by U.S. Marines are ghastly. The Chinese killed many of the Jaoanese POWs that they took. and and mistrated many of the Japanese pri
The Geneva Convention is the meeting that set standards for how POWs were to be treated. The atrocities of World War II prompted the treaties agreed to in 1949 to include a clause for the humane way to fight a war.
The Japanese considered surrender by their own soldiers a disgrace and liable to extreme punishment. They considered enemy prisoners the same way, and used them as slave labour. Some were executed wantonly.
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See: Wikipedia World War II Casualties.
As the Japanese had no remorse or care for the prisoners they were kept in the mud and grim and abused. most died of malnutrition and the ones that escaped were shot. popsicle stick pie fruit.
At POW camps in Japan.