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By the end of World War II Japanese army consisted of half of military command units and volunteers and half of conscripted civilians, total amount to 6 million men. Soon after Potsdam Declaration and surrender of discretion the Quantun Army in Manchuria(North-East of China) was marooned by Soviet forces. Soundly defeated, all of the Japanese forces have been captured by August 9, 1945. After that about 600 thousand disarmed Japanese soldiers and officers, selected to deport to USSR, have been transported to detention camps in Manchuria and North Korea.
Guarded Japanese prisoners of war were deported to prison camps in Soviet Union, to work to death. We believe that the better half of Siberian prison camps were Japanese POWs.

There are some pretty cool drawings here that tell the story of life as a POW. He does a good job of highlighting the good stuff that happens in between all the death, forced labor etc.

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Via Drawn.

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