Japanese document discovered in Russia in Siberia First disclosure December 26 17:42
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Immediately after the end of the war, Japanese detainees in Siberia found sentences and paintings in Russia demonstrating their life and feelings in the camp, which were disclosed to a Japanese government investigative team who visited Moscow last month. Was. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, who conducted the survey, said that such materials were disclosed for the first time since the survey began in 1991 and are "valuable."
Data on Japanese detained in Siberia is kept at the National Archives in Moscow, where the Japanese government requested access to camp records and other materials since 1991 and died during detention. We continue to identify people.
Last month, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's mission visited the Archival Archives and surveyed about 170 newly discovered materials, as the 15,000 dead have not been identified.
According to the Military Archives, the documents contained sentences and paintings describing the life and feelings of the detained Japanese in the camp.
These materials were also disclosed to NHK, and among them, the "POW Life Record" edited by Japanese in the camp of Khabarovsk in the Far East in 1947, there was a sense of humiliation inside a camp that was set up with wire mesh. In addition, the feeling of despair that a friend who was fine until a few days ago died from severe cold and forced labor and witnessed a frozen body is being spelled out.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has said that such records were disclosed for the first time since the investigation began, and that they were "precious," and that if a copy of the material was obtained, the desired bereaved family etc. would be provided.