In 2004, the POW Research Network Japan released the names of POWs by location on its website. It reportedly received more than 100 emails of inquiry from outside the country.

POW Research Network Japan released “Horyoshuyojo Minkanjin-Yokuryujo Jiten” (Encyclopedia of POW camps and civilian internment camps) from Tokyo-based publisher Suirensha. The publication of ...

"They were worried that they would be asked to fight with the Japanese. But it didn't happen." Tyner remembers her father telling her that life at the camp was hard. The POWs, including Tyner's ...

They spent World War II, from start to finish, 1941 to 1945, in Japanese prisoner of war camps. They were captured when the Japanese invaded Guam on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl ...

When Japanese forces arrived to occupy the country ... André's booklet depicts harsh life in POW camp, and also poverty of local people around it. Last year André visited Nagasaki for a fourth ...

The guards kept watch over thousands of POWs – German sailors and officers and some Japanese military – who were shipped in secret to the camp toward the end of the war. "It happened almost ...

3. How POWs in Japanese prison camps kept their spirits up with music and theatre during the years of occupation Resilience and creativity flourished in the prisoner-of-war camps of Stanley and ...

Japan's Agreements Over the course of the next century, more qualifications and rules were added to the conventions. Standards for the "humane treatment" of POWs were established in 1907 at an ...

A mission to commemorate the 80th anniversary of a Japanese prisoner of war camp liberation known as the “Great Raid” was in ...

Frank Murray used Gaeilge to keep diary entries secret in Japanese prisoner of war camps during the Second World War ...