Despite limited resources and a dwindling number of witnesses, a citizens group has continued efforts to determine conditions in POW camps in Japan where 10 percent of the captured combatants died ...

Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. The remains of Army Pfc. Harry Jerele of ...

For the first time, the numbers of prisoners of war incarcerated at camps across Japan during World War II and their captivity and forced labor in appalling conditions have been documented in detail.

If the Mukden POW Camp is unknown, so is the World War II Pacific War Memorial Hall. It opened two years ago in a narrow hillside storefront that did its part during the war.

A list of Japanese women who were held in Soviet labor camps after the end of World War II was located in Russia in what could be the first discovery of its kind, according to a professor at Osaka ...

During World War II, the Japanese army occupied Singapore and other countries, and in some areas they set up prisoner-of-war camps where prisoners were forced to design and manufacture prosthetic ...

The remains of a soldier that died at a Japanese POW camp were identified by experts. The soldier's remains were accounted for using mitochondrial DNA analysis.

The ship's chippy with the children from POW Camps and the toys that he made for them This story was submitted to the People's War Website by Pamela Brown, a volunteer for BBC GMR, on behalf of ...

Eight-two years to the day after he died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Charles R. Powers has returned home to Riverside. Powers died at age 26 on July 18, 1942 ...