Japanese Concentration Camps During World War II

World War II caused the death of many people. The wrath of the Germans, Italians, and the Japanese led to horrible death. The concentration camps killed thousands of people. The Japanese concentration camps, in particular, were awful places that forced hard labor out of prisoners of war until they died. During World War II, the Japanese lost to the Allies and surrendered, but the concentration camps of the Japanese still caused the death of many prisoners of war. The hard labor forced by the Japanese concentration camp runners wasn’t only unsafe and unhealthy for the prisoners, but it also was a deadly trap that killed thousands of people.
World War II was the second war that included many countries battling for a cause. It lasted from September
They were famously known for and responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor. They attacked many of their neighboring Asian countries and started to take over them. “Japan sent troops to occupy French Indochina that same month, and the United States responded with economic sanctions, including an embargo on oil and steel…Over the next seven months, Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies, British Singapore, New Guinea, the Philippines and a number of other locations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.” (World History Group) They started to control many countries during World War II giving them a large increase in territory. This helped them to reach their goal to create a Pan Asian
The prisoners already had to do work most every day, so the poor living conditions just added to the pain of the prisoners. First off, they didn’t get an adequate amount of food. “They received too little food (an average of 600 calories per day), [which] is why many got sick very quickly and ended up being unable to work. A prisoner, Harry Carver, declared after the war that he was treated like a slave: ‘I worked 12 hours a day on diet consisting of soybeans and algae.’” (Ovidiu Popa). Many people died because of unsanitary food and water, of sicknesses, or just being overworked. “The harshest conditions were endured by the prisoners who were sent to work on the railroad between Burma and Thailand, known as the ‘railway of death.’…The 400 kilometers of railway track were constructed from scratch by forced labor: prisoners worked from morning to evening, ten days in a row (followed by ten days of break), and had to survive on a meager diet consisting of rice and a few vegetables. Malnutrition, ulcers, cholera and exhaustion made many victims: of the 60,000 Allied prisoners who worked on that site, between 13,000 and 16,000 have died.” (Popa, Ovidiu) Also, the guards working at the concentration camps were very rude to the prisoners. They knew that they needed the prisoners to work, but they still treated them with disgust. “Some of the Japanese guarding the POWs were very cruel. One unsmiling officer had a trick. He issued orders in