For the first time, the numbers of prisoners of war incarcerated at camps across Japan during World War II and their captivity ... of nearly 1,000 pages. POW Research Network Japan released ...

After the end of World War II, former guards and officials of the detention camps in Japan were convicted as Class B and C war criminals. In 2004, the POW Research Network Japan released the names ...

More than 1,100 Allied soldiers were held captive at Kinkaseki copper mine during World War Two Surrounded by rolling hills, Jinguashi is a picturesque former mining town on Taiwan's north-eastern ...

"There's no mention of the POW camp that once stood there ... "Many ordinary Americans do not even know that Japan was an enemy in World War II," Kotler said. "And there is some surprise the ...

During World War II, thousands of prisoners ... became a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese Army in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. He was held in a camp in Nagasaki called Fukuoka 2.

Children and adults who were born and raised in the United States were locked in internment camps on American soil, solely because they were of Japanese descent. This happened during World War II.

People gather at the former POW camp site to commemorate the 1944 breakout. Close to the end of WWII, when Japanese and Allied forces were fighting brutal battles in the South Pacific, captured ...

While America's Japanese internment camps during WWII have been discussed at length ... time that isn't really talked about. For European POWs, life in American camps looked much different.

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- When the son of a captured Dutch soldier, who had been detained in a Japanese labor camp during World War II, learned about ... co-chair of POW Research Network Japan ...