Ofuna
Ofuna was not considered as a POW camp but rather a POW Interrogation Center. Here, the Japanese tortured the POW, usually toward selected POW. Rations given to the POW at these camp, did not provide them with enough nutrients. POW suffered from malnutrition and various diseases.
Ofuna was not considered as a POW camp but rather a POW Interrogation Center. Here, the Japanese tortured the POW, usually toward selected POW. Rations given to the POW at these camp, did not provide them with enough nutrients. POW suffered from malnutrition and various diseases.
Omori
Omori is a POW camp based outside of Tokyo. Built upon an artificial island in the Tokyo Bay. POW had labor away. They basically became slaves to the Japanese. The POW were forced to work in factories, mines, docks, and railways. POW were forced to work "...ten to eleven hours a day, seven days a week..."(Hillenbrand 235). Omori POW also suffered from malnutrition and various diseases.
Omori is a POW camp based outside of Tokyo. Built upon an artificial island in the Tokyo Bay. POW had labor away. They basically became slaves to the Japanese. The POW were forced to work in factories, mines, docks, and railways. POW were forced to work "...ten to eleven hours a day, seven days a week..."(Hillenbrand 235). Omori POW also suffered from malnutrition and various diseases.
Naoestu
"The three hundred residents, mostly Australians, were shrunken down to virtual stick figures...The wind, scudding off the sea, whistled through the cracks in the walls, and there were so many holes in the roof that it snowed in doors. The whole building was visibly infested with fleas and lice, and rats trotted through the rooms. The bed were planks naileed into the walls; the mattresses were loose rice staw. Everywhere, there were large gaps in the floor; the POWs had pulled up the floor boards and burned them in an effort to survive temperatures that regularly plunged far below zero...-one in every five prisoners-who haddied in thiscamp in 1943 and 1944, succumbing to pneumonia, beriberi, malnutrition,colitis, or a combination of these. Relentless physical abuse had precipitated most of the deaths."(Hillenbrand 278)
"The three hundred residents, mostly Australians, were shrunken down to virtual stick figures...The wind, scudding off the sea, whistled through the cracks in the walls, and there were so many holes in the roof that it snowed in doors. The whole building was visibly infested with fleas and lice, and rats trotted through the rooms. The bed were planks naileed into the walls; the mattresses were loose rice staw. Everywhere, there were large gaps in the floor; the POWs had pulled up the floor boards and burned them in an effort to survive temperatures that regularly plunged far below zero...-one in every five prisoners-who haddied in thiscamp in 1943 and 1944, succumbing to pneumonia, beriberi, malnutrition,colitis, or a combination of these. Relentless physical abuse had precipitated most of the deaths."(Hillenbrand 278)
Zentsuji
The Zentsuji POW camp was supposedto be oneof the best POW camp. Wrong. "Though Ofuna interrogators hadspoken of Zentsuji as a "plush" raward, the camp wasno such place. The prisinors' diet wasso ppor that men wandered the compund,ravenous,pulling up weeds and eating them. Their only drinking water came from a reservoir fed by runoff from rice paddies fertilized with human excrement, and to avoid dying of thirst, the POWs had drink it, leaving 90 percent of them afflicted with dysentery.
The Zentsuji POW camp was supposedto be oneof the best POW camp. Wrong. "Though Ofuna interrogators hadspoken of Zentsuji as a "plush" raward, the camp wasno such place. The prisinors' diet wasso ppor that men wandered the compund,ravenous,pulling up weeds and eating them. Their only drinking water came from a reservoir fed by runoff from rice paddies fertilized with human excrement, and to avoid dying of thirst, the POWs had drink it, leaving 90 percent of them afflicted with dysentery.
Rokuroshi
"No one explained why the POWs had been taken so far from anywhere and anyone, to a place that appeared uninhabitable"(Hillenbrand 192). Here the POWs were on a "nearly all-liquid diet"(Hillenbrand 304). POWs labor work was to break rocks.
"No one explained why the POWs had been taken so far from anywhere and anyone, to a place that appeared uninhabitable"(Hillenbrand 192). Here the POWs were on a "nearly all-liquid diet"(Hillenbrand 304). POWs labor work was to break rocks.