This pictured barge was captured by Americans on Guadalcanal in 1942. Redouble your efforts and respond to their expectations. British authorities retained 113,500 of the approximately 750,000 POWs in south and south-east Asia until 1947; the last POWs captured in Burma and Malaya returned to Japan in October 1947.Nationalist Chinese forces took the surrender of 1.2 million Japanese military personnel following the war. These interrogations were painful and stressful for the POWs.Some Japanese POWs also played an important role in helping the Allied militaries develop propaganda and politically indoctrinate their fellow prisoners.Japanese POWs held in Allied prisoner of war camps were treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention.Most Japanese captured by US forces after September 1942 were turned over to Australia or New Zealand for internment. The treatment of Japanese POWs in Siberia was also similar to that suffered by Soviet prisoners who were being held in the area. This was because the Nationalists wished to seize as many weapons as possible, ensure that the departure of the Japanese military didn't create a security vacuum and discourage Japanese personnel from fighting alongside the Chinese communists.Hundreds of thousands of Japanese also surrendered to Soviet forces in the last weeks of the war and after Japan's surrender. Until late 1946, the United States retained almost 70,000 POWs to dismantle military facilities in the Philippines, Okinawa, central Pacific, and Hawaii. This pictured barge was captured by Americans on Guadalcanal in 1942. Each Survivors of ships sunk by Allied submarines frequently refused to surrender, and many of the prisoners who were captured by submariners were taken by force. Soviet and Chinese forces accepted the surrender of 1.6 million Japanese and the western allies took the surrender of millions more in Japan, South-East Asia and the South-West Pacific.Repatriation of some Japanese POWs was delayed by Allied authorities. They were also questioned once they reached a POW camp in Australia, New Zealand, India or the United States. (2008), Japanese POWs often believed that by surrendering they had broken all ties with Japan, and many provided The Japanese military's attitude towards surrender was institutionalized in the 1941 "Code of Battlefield Conduct" (The indoctrination of Japanese military personnel to have little respect for the act of surrendering led to conduct which Allied soldiers found deceptive. Following this they were rapidly moved to rear areas where they were interrogated by successive echelons of the Allied military. In practice though, many Allied soldiers were unwilling to accept the surrender of Japanese troops because of atrocities committed by the Japanese. I have very limited knowledge of this. While the Japanese feared that they would be subjected to reprisals, they were generally treated well. Japanese Treatment of World War II POWs: Murder Orders (1944-45) Figure 1.--The Japanese after Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender (August 1) had two weeks to destroy documents before American occupation troops began landing. Most Japanese soldiers were interrogated by intelligence officers of the battalion or regiment which had captured them for information which could be used by these units. Humiliated, tortured or executed: The little-known story of the Irish POWs Some 650 Irish soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese during WW2. Japanese treatment of POWs LAURENCE REES : Why were British prisoners treated so badly by the Japanese? This tactic was initially rejected by General MacArthur when it was proposed to him in mid-1943 on the grounds that it violated the Millions of Japanese military personnel surrendered following the end of the war. Shortlisted in the Web Content Management category at the Highly Commended in the Digital Brand of the Year category at the Nominated for Best Digital Solution of the Year (Consumer) at the Shortlisted in the Educational Entrepreneur category at the "A brilliant and highly original website. WW2-era Japanese landing barge similar to what Alma Salm and the Corregidor POWs would have been transported in.