Japanese Fatality Rates

I have seen numbers from 580000 to about 600000. Way more then what the Western Allies held. And most were captured in Manchuria. Many of them were kept and used as slave labor for years after the war And estimates of deaths while prisoners is estimated at about 60000.


Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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