Western Allies had taken 35,000 Japanese prisoners between December 1941 and 15 August 1945, i.e., before the Japanese capitulation. [6] The Soviet Union held the Japanese POWs in a much longer time period and used them as a labor force.

Unlike tens of thousands of Gulag inmates, Katsuno survived and was one of the first to tell the world about the horrors of the repressive Stalinist machine.

Oct 5, 2020 · For compensation, an additional 3,000,000 German hostages were sent to the gulag (concentration camps) to make up for the demand. In the meantime, approximately 600,000 Japanese men were abducted to Siberia and spent bitter days in the same prison camps as soon as World War II ended. Their experiences are not well known by the world, however.

Mar 18, 2025 · The Gulag was a system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons. From the 1920s to the mid-1950s it housed political prisoners and criminals of the Soviet Union. At its height, the Gulag imprisoned millions of people.

Faced with this onslaught, the Japanese Kwantung Army, along with its Manchurian and Mongolian auxiliaries, surrendered. After initial resistance, Japan’s forces on the Korean peninsula, Sakhalin, and the Kuriles also laid down their arms to the Soviets.

On 9 August 1945, six days before Japan’s surrender to the Allied forces in World War II, the Soviet Army began a massive attack on Japan’s Kwantung Army [関東軍] in Manchuria [満州国] in northeast China. Some 1.6 million Soviet soldiers, 5000 tanks and 5000 planes attacked a Japanese army that had 700,000 soldiers, 200 tanks, and 200 airplanes.

Mar 7, 2023 · The Soviet Army rounded up around 575,000 disarmed Japanese soldiers and carted them off to the Siberian Gulag, where they were forced to labor in temperatures of 20 to 40 degrees below zero, on...

The leaders of Gulag issued a number of propaganda magazines, which contained numerous photos representing ‘wonderful’ life of Japanese in the Gulag (Fig.3). Those were mainly the photos depicting the Reading Room with Japanese attentively studying the works of Marx and

Two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and on the night before the laying waste of Nagasaki, the Soviet Union declared war on imperial Japan, its massed armies pouring across the Manchurian border. The Kwantung Army, Japan’s 700,000 …

Mr. Misao Naito, better known by his pen name Gosuke Uchimura, who died Jan. 30, was a Japanese whose fate was affected by the Soviet invasion and then Japan's surrender in World War II. Unlike...