"Japanese Prisoner of War Camps" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Aug 2017 12:01 p.m. PST |
"There were more than 140,000 white prisoners in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Of these, one in three died from starvation, work, punishments or from diseases for which there were no medicines to treat. Prisoners of the Japanese found themselves in camps in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and other Japanese-occupied countries. Prisoner of war camps in Japan housed both capture military personnel and civilians who had been in the East before the outbreak of war…"
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| mumbasa | 19 Aug 2017 1:11 p.m. PST |
Thank you, Tango. My Uncle was a civilian construction worker who was captured on Wake Island. He spent the war as a POW in China and Japan. He had some physical problems after the war but never hated the Japanese people. He knew that the military leaders were the bad guys.
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| Vigilant | 20 Aug 2017 10:48 a.m. PST |
We had a teacher at secondary school (high school) who was bent over because of torture during imprisonment by the Japanese. Don't know what he felt about them, but it coloured my views for quite a while. All others I knew at the time were on the European front. |
| Blutarski | 20 Aug 2017 2:21 p.m. PST |
A number of years ago (early 80's) I worked with a Dutch colleague whose family was living in Java (now Indonesia, of course) at the outbreak of the Pacific war. He was about age 9 or so when the Japanese overran the island and spent the entire war period in a concentration camp with his mother. He emerged from the experience with a deep and visceral dislike of the Japanese (as in putting one's fist through an office wall) and was often requested to absent himself from the office whenever a Japanese business delegation was scheduled to visit. B |
| Tango01 | 20 Aug 2017 3:24 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Glad your uncle can made it….
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Armand
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 Legion 4  | 20 Aug 2017 3:34 p.m. PST |
I could see, as some have pointed out, that those who were POWs of the IJFs, may not "like" them as a whole. It may not be to the current "standards" as some believe today, etc. But I can see where there could be hatred in this case. |
| Blutarski | 21 Aug 2017 6:20 p.m. PST |
Time is a great healer, when given the opportunity. Enemies today have a mischievous habit of becoming allies tomorrow. B |
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