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Ōmori was the site of an Imperial Japanese Army-administered prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. The inhumane conditions in the camp were described in detail in the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption describing the life of American Olympic Athlete Louis Zamperini.
This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943 Ruins of the buildings in the Gila River War Relocation Center of Camp Butte Harvesting spinach. Tule Lake Relocation Center, September 8, 1942 Nurse tending four orphaned babies at the Manzanar Children's Village Manzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children
Over 10,000 Japanese Americans passed through the concentration camp during its brief existence, according to the National Park Service. ... At its peak, the camp held 7,310 prisoners of Japanese ...
Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Japanese: 渡邊睦裕, 18 January 1918 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed "the Bird" by his prisoners was an Imperial Japanese Army soldier in World War II who served in multiple military internment camps. He was infamous for his extremely cruel and evil mistreatment of allied POWs.
An estimated 1,200 to 1,800 Japanese nationals and American-born Japanese from Hawaii were interned or incarcerated, either in five camps on the islands or in one of the mainland concentration camps, but this represented well-under two percent of the total Japanese American residents in the islands. [192] "No serious explanations were offered ...
An example of Japanese P.O.W. propaganda. The Ōfuna Camp (大船収容所, Ōfuna shūyōsho) was an Imperial Japanese Navy installation located in Kamakura, outside Yokohama, Japan during World War II, where high-value enlisted and officers, particularly pilots and submariner prisoners of war were incarcerated and interrogated by Japanese naval intelligence. [1]
Dalton Wells Isolation Center was an American internment camp located in Moab, Utah. The Dalton Wells camp was in use from 1935 to 1943. The camp played a role in two significant events during the twentieth century. During the New Deal programs under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the camp was built as a CCC camp to provide jobs for young men ...