Did the Japanese send POWs back to Japan homeland during WW2?

Question

And the reasons were?

Answer 1

Japan established numerous POW camps in the Japanese homeland. Here is a summary list (reading from North to South, geographically): -

Hokkaido: Hakodate camps.
Honshu: Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka camps.
Shikoku: Hiroshima camps.
Kyushu: Fukuoka camps.

These camps were prisons for thousands of Allied POW’s, and also to many Allied-nation civilians interned by the Japanese. The regime in these camps was as brutal as in most other POW camps established outside Japan itself ... (the exception being the Burma Railway construction camps, where the death rate was even higher than elsewhere for POWs).

But the Japanese homeland camps were not pleasant resorts. They were slave labor camps. 12-hours every day of hard labor in mines, factories or farms; no medical care, beyond what the prisoners could do for themselves; a starvation diet of about 600 calories per day, with scarcely any protein; no Red Cross parcels allowed; beatings and torture for any failure to obey orders; death for any attempt at escape.

The Japanese moved their prisoners to these homeland camps (and others in Korea, China and Manchuria) by ordinary cargo or passenger ships, with the prisoners crammed into the cargo holds, without exercise, sanitary facilities, or adequate food and water. Consequently, large numbers of POWs died during the sea passage to Japan. And, because the ships were not marked in any special way to show that they were carrying POWs, many were sunk by Allied submarines and aircraft, with the prisoners left to drown by the escaping crews.

The reason why the Japanese moved prisoners to homeland and other distant camps? Mainly, to get thousands of slave laborers where there was work to be done. In a few cases, to move prominent VIP prisoners to places where they could not be rescued by the Allies.

Answer 2

Yes. Major Gregory Boyington was shot down and captured by the Japanese and was taken to Japan, where he was in prison with other POW's. I do not know the reasoning behind this.

Answer 3

as a results of fact their furnish strains have been cut back so quite than pull back and abandon their positioned up they resorted to cannibalism. Their refusal to surrender and willingness to motel to even the main savage and inhuman of habit is why the Allied forces desperate to drop the bomb quite than proceed to take them island by island and go through the thousands of thousands of deaths digging out this form of soldier. It replaced right into a intense low component in jap custom lots so as that to on the present time the jap do no longer even talk WWII. the only 2 notes of their college e book is the date of Pearl Harbor and the date of the atomic bomb.

Answer 4

Also alot were sent to "camps" in Colorado