Mitsushima, also known as Matsushima, Tokyo No. 2 Detached Camp, Tokyo #3B, and Tokyo 20, was a
prisoner of war camp that provided labour to build the
Hiraoka Dam
is a dam in Tenryū, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1951. It is located on the Tenryū River upstream from the Sakuma Dam.
During the Second World War prisoners of war held at Tokyo #2D (Mitsushima) Prisoner of War Camp provided labour ...
on the
Tenryū River in the Central Highlands in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
Tatsuo Tsuchiya (also known as "Little Glass Eye") was the first Japanese to be convicted of war crimes at the
Yokohama War Crimes Trials
The Yokohama War Crimes Trials was a series of trials of 996 Japanese war criminals
The Empire of Japan committed war crimes in many Asian-Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese ...
. Six guards, including the commander, were executed whilst another four guards (including Tsuchiya) received life sentences for causing the deaths of 48 prisoners.
[UC Berkeley War Crimes Center (http://wcsc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/Japan/Yokohama/Reviews/Yokohama_Review_TsuchiyaT.htm)]
See also
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Kanose POW Camp
Kanose, also known as ''Tokyo 16B'', was a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War located in the Showa Denko Carbide Plant at Kanose, Niigata in Japan.
The first 100 prisoners at the camp came from Mitsushima POW Camp. Of these, o ...
* ''
Tofuku Maru''
*
List of POW camps in Japan
External links
Roger Mansell page on Mitsushima POW Camp
References
Japanese prisoner of war and internment camps
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