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 ...

more POWs died at the hands of the Japanese in the Pacific theater and specifically in the Philippines than in any other conflict to date. In Germany in WWII, POWs died at a rate 1.2%.

A site with significance to World War II history has been forgotten in the ... The guards kept watch over thousands of POWs – German sailors and officers and some Japanese military – who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 80 years after his death, World War II service member Army Corporal Glenn Hodak is finally coming home.

Tysoe said his maternal grandfather was mobilized by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army to build the Thai-Burma railway, also known as the "Death Railway." More than 10,000 POWs are said to ...