{"id":65831,"date":"2021-05-21T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=65831"},"modified":"2024-02-25T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T19:06:06","slug":"life-inside-a-japanese-pow-camp-ww2-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/05\/21\/life-inside-a-japanese-pow-camp-ww2-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Inside a Japanese PoW Camp &#8211; WW2 Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hHz4xWHpW9c\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>World War Two<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 20 May 2021<\/p>\n<p>The inhuman, torturous, and deadly Japanese PoW Camps famous from <em>Bridge over the River Kwai<\/em>, <em>Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence<\/em>, <em>Empire of the Sun<\/em>, and more recently <em>Unbroken<\/em> are a world of abuse and mistreatment managed by willfully incompetent and sadistically brutal men.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Join us on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TimeGhostHistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TimeGhostHistory<\/a><br \/>\nOr join The TimeGhost Army directly at: <a href=\"https:\/\/timeghost.tv\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/timeghost.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get Collectibles here: <a href=\"https:\/\/timeghost.tv\/collectibles\/\u200b\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/timeghost.tv\/collectibles\/\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow WW2 day by day on Instagram @ww2_day_by_day &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ww2_day_by_day\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ww2_day_by_day<\/a><br \/>\nBetween 2 Wars: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nSource list: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/WW2sources\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/WW2sources<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson<br \/>\nWritten by: Spartacus Olsson and Joram Appel<br \/>\nDirector: Astrid Deinhard<br \/>\nProducers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson<br \/>\nExecutive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer<br \/>\nCreative Producer: Maria Kyhle<br \/>\nPost-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns<br \/>\nResearch by: Joram Appel<br \/>\nEdited by: Miki Cackowski<br \/>\nSound design: Marek Kami\u0144ski<br \/>\nMap animations: Eastory (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/eastory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/eastory<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Colorizations by:<br \/>\nMiko\u0142aj Uchman<br \/>\nDaniel Weiss<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\nYad Vashem 4613\/666, 4572\/3<br \/>\nIWM ART 15747 42, 16712 (1), 15747 91, LD 7187, 15747 83<br \/>\nPicture of Corporal Rod Breavington, courtesy of Michael Clayton-Jones<br \/>\nPictures of Allied POWs at Fukuoka camp, courtesy of Roger Mansell, Palo Alto, CA<\/p>\n<p>Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:<br \/>\nJon Bjork &#8211; &#8220;Disposal&#8221;<br \/>\nCobby Costa &#8211; &#8220;Flight Path&#8221;<br \/>\nPhilip Ayers &#8211; &#8220;Trapped in a Maze&#8221;<br \/>\nWendel Scherer &#8211; &#8220;Growing Doubt&#8221;<br \/>\nWendel Scherer &#8211; &#8220;Defeated&#8221;<br \/>\nFabien Tell &#8211; &#8220;Last Point of Safe Return&#8221;<br \/>\nGunnar Johnsen &#8211; &#8220;Not Safe Yet&#8221;<br \/>\nJon Bjork &#8211; &#8220;Icicles&#8221;<br \/>\nPhilip Ayers &#8211; &#8220;Under the Dome&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Archive by Screenocean\/Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screenocean.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.screenocean.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>World War Two<\/strong><br \/>\n1 day ago<br \/>\nWhile the Japanese camp system is fairly well known to anyone with a cursory interest in WW2, their inner workings from a Japanese viewpoint are much less explored than the German camps in Europe. It&#8217;s easy to chalk that up to language barriers, but when I scratch the surface only a little bit during my research, something else comes to light. The huge difference between Germany and Japan at this time. The German system was driven by individuals forming a system to serve their murderous intent, while the Japanese system used individuals within a well established hierarchic system of abuse to fulfill their goals of subjugation and punishment. You should however not infer a lesser amount of personal responsibility because of that, or because we have a harder time describing the perpetrators as people &mdash; the Japanese camp commandants, and guards were faced with the same daily choices as the Germans: Do I strike, or do I not? Do I torture, or do I not? Do I murder or do I not? Failing to choose to act out against the inmates was never cause for punishment or falling out of favor, and violence was never the only choice available to keep order. So if you are looking for individual culpability, it\u2019s just as present here as it was there. That said, it&#8217;s always important to remember that it was not the Japanese people as a whole who perpetrated these acts, but individuals with the freedom of choice to do so or not.<\/p>\n<p>Spartacus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two Published 20 May 2021 The inhuman, torturous, and deadly Japanese PoW Camps famous from Bridge over the River Kwai, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Empire of the Sun, and more recently Unbroken are a world of abuse and mistreatment managed by willfully incompetent and sadistically brutal men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,24,5,683,13,230],"tags":[884,1120,657,1227,1228],"class_list":["post-65831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-japan","category-military","category-pacific","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-burma","tag-pows","tag-thailand","tag-timeghost","tag-warcrimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-h7N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87714,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65831\/revisions\/87714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}