The facility was installed as the No. 3 branch of the Hakodate POW camp in November 1943. Immediately after that, 201 Dutch POWs arrived there from Java. At the time of Japan’s defeat in the war ...

POW Research Network Japan released “Horyoshuyojo Minkanjin-Yokuryujo Jiten” (Encyclopedia of POW camps and civilian internment camps) from Tokyo-based publisher Suirensha. The publication of ...

"They were worried that they would be asked to fight with the Japanese. But it didn't happen." Tyner remembers her father telling her that life at the camp was hard. The POWs, including Tyner's ...