Did the Japanese take POW's?

Question

During WWII did the Japanese in Okinawa and at Iwo Jima and everywhere else torture and kill their captives?

Answer 1

No not really. they had no way of getting them back to Japan. SO yes they just killed them once they were found. In the start of the war they took POW's and tortured and killed them in the main land. The baton death march is the most famous one of the war. Good luck and hope this helped.  

Answer 2

Not only that, in some cases they ate them.

Answer 3

yes  

Answer 4

The Japanese did take prisoners during WWII.  Men form Doolittle's raid were captured, Bataan Death March was made by POWs, and do not forget the bridge over the River Kiwi was built by British POWs.

The Japanese looked down on any who would surrender instead of die and thought less of them.  Some stories were of out right torture others were of death.  Most were left with nothing, but a bit of rice and water.  No medical care, starvation diet, horrible living conditions.  Russian POWs in German hands had better treatment.

Answer 5

Yes.  A man I used to know (died in '06) was a Bataan death march and Japanese POW camp survivor (unfortunately, he fell off the roof of his house and got killed).  They did not have to follow the Geneva Convention rules of POWs.  They treated the prisoners terribly...starvation, torture, murder.  

Answer 6

japan durign ww2 did not follow geneva convention. japan was practically a barbarian horde of the mongols and visigoth type.  

Answer 7

When they invaded China they took many women for their brothels

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Answer 8

Yes they did and they were vicious captors.