'Much Ado About Too Few': Aspects of the Treatment of Canadian and Commonwealth POWs and Civilian Internees in Metropolitan Japan 1941-1945

Althought there have been no major problems in Canadian-Japanese relations that cannot be swiftly resolved, the Japanese treatment of Canadian POWs in WWII has supplied Canadians with a ready-made issue through which to vent their occasional frustrations with the Japanese. Ion raises the question of...

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Published in:Defence studies 2006-09, Vol.6 (3), p.292-317
Main Author: Ion, A. Hamish
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed Forces
Canada
Concentration camps
International relations
Japan
Military policy
Prisoners
Prisoners of war & missing in action
World War II
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Summary:Althought there have been no major problems in Canadian-Japanese relations that cannot be swiftly resolved, the Japanese treatment of Canadian POWs in WWII has supplied Canadians with a ready-made issue through which to vent their occasional frustrations with the Japanese. Ion raises the question of whether or not the mistreatment of Canadian and Allied POWs was the result of deliberate policy or simply the product of the chaos of war in a discussion of the Japanese side of the POW issue rather than that of the Canadian government.
ISSN:1470-2436
1743-9698
DOI:10.1080/14702430601060131