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.
Begin your research with websites concerning WW2 POW camps. Go to www.mansell.com Extensive lists and rosters for Japanese POW Camps
At POW camps in Japan.
Possibly the POW Camp in Bataan, as that was one of the first POW camps for the allies, and one of the first experiences for Japanese forces on the handling of Prisoners of War.
President Nixon negotiated with the North. An agreement was reached. We would cease fire; We get our POW's returned; we'll leave the country.
The Australians treated the Japanese well in POW camps and gave them better food and water than the Japanese gave them, better shelter, medical attention, clothing and cigarettes.
POW camps for the Japanese, but NOT in the Pacific. In the United States itself were POW camps held. They were for the Japanese whom were deemed spies for the Japanese government.
I heve not long finished reading 'The Last Escape' by John Nichol & Tony Rennel: fascinating & illuminating story of the Allied Pow in Germany. It does throw some light on the Russian pow situation, which is quite grim. And shows the beginnings of the Cold War. The differences between that situation and that of the Soviet regime & the Japanese treatment of Pow is however quite stark. Therefore I heartily recommend reading this book, but the answer to the question, I really do not know...... It was about 31 000
Japanese residents were interned. Japanese POW were treated in accord with the Geneva Convention.
First, that such a device might one day be used against the US and that all of the Allied POW's held by Japan would be executed and finally that this action might strengthen Japanese resolve to fight this war to the last living person.
Begin your research with websites concerning WW2 POW camps. Go to www.mansell.com Extensive lists and rosters for Japanese POW Camps
Approximately 500 Allied POW's were rescued.
Jang Pow.
In accordance with the Geneva Convention.
They were never released. The Americans and other allied forces had to get them free by killing the Japanese at the POW Camps in the Philippines. The ones who were taken to Japan and survived were released after Japan surrendered but they had to wait for the Americans to get all the help they needed and to be returned to their nations. Correction: Not all of the prisoners were American, not all were Phillipino. MOST were Australian and British. There WERE camps, such as the famous raid on Cabanatuan (read Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides) that were taken and prisoners freed by joint Phillipine and Allied troops.
At POW camps in Japan.
Around 4 Million POW's were murdered by the SS and Nazis in the Concentration Camps during the Holocaust, around 3.4-3.7 Million were Soviet POW's and the rest were American, British and French POW's. Around 1,500 Africans were also capture as POW's.
4% of POW's in German camps about 5000 27% of POW's in Japanese camps about 125,000