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Folder 8: Japanese POW Information Bureau (Historical Data). Includes an index of documents in the Japanese POW Information Bureau, including detailed roster information. Also contains information about the Bureau itself. This folder is not referenced in NARA's online catalog. THIS FOLDER APPEARS TO CONTAIN A MASTER INDEX TO JAPANESE POW DOCUMENTS EXISTING AT THE END OF THE WAR.
Folder 9: 1 of 2 - Records of Japanese POW Information Bureau. Instructions, receipts, shipment lists & routing slips for documents to be transported and/or destroyed. This folder not referenced in NARA's online catalog. THIS FOLDER APPEARS TO CONTAIN LISTS OF JAPANESE POW DOCUMENTS SHIPPED AND/OR DESTROYED.
Folder 10: 2 of 2 - JPWIB, DD Form 111 for Records of (Transferred to Japanese Government). Receipts for documents returned to Japanese government & shipment lists of records. This folder is not referenced in NARA's online catalog. THIS FOLDER APPEARS TO CONTAIN MASTER LISTS OF JAPANESE POW DOCUMENTS RETURNED TO THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

Japan_POW_Bureau_Operations_with_tables_re_POW_camps_in_Asia-JAPANESE_TEXT_1946,1947.pdf
Japanese Personnel_RG153Bx107.pdf - assorted scans of Japanese of importance

Komiya_Kanagawa_internees_PRNJ_JAPANESE_TEXT.pdf
Letters_of_James_McDonald_Gallagher_KIA_on_Death_March.pdf
Location_of_Remains_of_Allied_Personnel_1945-11-19-s.pdf
MacArthur_documents_re_no_media_coverage_of_atrocities.pdf
Monetary_Effects_of_POWs_1947-09-30_RG331Bx3959.pdf

List of Monetary Effects of POWs and Military Internees which are not remitted to POW Information Bureau
Part 2 of 3 parts. Part 3 of 7 parts (3 copies in folder)
2 lists, All Dutch POWs
Part 1 of 3 parts, 2 lists
All British POWs, Includes deceased, living and unknown
American POWs, Includes deceased, living and unknown
Includes Czechoslovakia, Africa, Unknown, Philippines, New Zealand, Malay, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada and Iraq. Many copies of each roster in folder.

Monetary_effects_of_deceased_POW_internees_RG331Bx4065.pdf

NASM_films_per_Record_Group.xls
Niigata5B-marutsu_dock_workers_roster-largescan.pdf
Non-battle_US_deaths_world_theater_RG407Bx1530.pdf - Total for Pacific/Asia region = 414

NSA_declassified_docs_on_Japanese_codes.htm
One_Jap_1944-03-11_Chunosuke_Yamoka_aircrewman_captured_in_China_Collier's_1944-03-11.pdf
P-47sAtWar.wmv
Patent_Property_Reports_1947-1949_RG331Bx3959.pdf

Typed report of Japanese and German patents
Report of release of Allied and Neutral property seized in Japan in 1941
Report of release of Allied and Neutral property seized in Japan in 1941 (mostly American, British & Chinese)
Mostly American,British and German patents & copyrights
Reparations claims against Japan

Japanese_radio_stations_RG331Bx1322.pdf

Robert_Hudson_Bataan_statistics.doc
Tokyo_Nightmare_POW_report_on_Tokyo_camp_Collier's_1942-09-26.pdf Japan National Diet Library Admirals Cave on Okinawa - Weekly Intelligence bulletins Vol I Nos 1 to 52 14 July 1944 to 9 July 1945 Report No 11-c(3) USSBS Index Section 6

Allied Prisoners RAKUYO MARU - Weekly Intelligence bulletins Vol I Nos 1 to 52 14 July 1944 to 9 July 1945 Report No 11-c(3) USSBS Index Section 6

Excerpts from Fukuoka resident interviews Report No 14e(5) USSBS Index Section 2

FUCHIDA_Mitsuru_interrogation_from Japanese Military and Naval Intelligence interrogation Report No 1j USSBS Index Section 2

Grew press conference 1944-11-16

Japanese Military Caves on Peleliu - Weekly Intelligence bulletins Vol II Nos 1 to 5 16 July 1945 to 13 August 1945 Report No 12-c(5) USSBS Index Section 6

Japanese Treatment of POWs - from Weekly Intelligence bulletins Vol II Nos 1 to 5 16 July 1945 to 13 August 1945 Report No 12-c(5) USSBS Index Section 6

Man from Methodist background p1003 - from Fukuoka resident interviews Report No 14e(5) USSBS

Monbusho statistics on student workers - from Education Interviews of school officials Report No 14h(27)(b) USSBS

POWs and POW Camps - Abstracts of Evidentiary Documents Alphabetical by Subject 3

Sasebo Naval Center - Weekly Intelligence bulletins Vol I Nos 1 to 52 14 July 1944 to 9 July 1945 Report No 11-c(3) USSBS Index Section 6

Unusual Diary of Naval Officer Nemoto - Weekly Intel Bulletin Vol01 No20

Index Cards for Interrogations Typical Answers Report No 14h(42)(b) - wartime morale and attitudes re war, defeat, Emperor, bombing, Americans, work, propaganda, fighting spirit

Index Cards for Interrogations Colorful Answers Report No 14h(42)(c) - worries, war leaders, defeat, changes, spirituality
Index Cards for Interrogations Unusual Answers Report No 14h(42)(d) - changes, defeat, worries, greatest weakness, war leaders, doubts about victory, certainty of defeat, Emperor, bombings, Americans

Index cards for interrogations feelings at start of war Report No 14h(42)(e) USSBS Index Section 2

Index cards for interrogations opinions as to leaders Report No 14h(42)(h) USSBS Index Section 2

Index cards for interrogations American propaganda leaflets Report No 14h(42)(j) USSBS Index Section 2

Index cards for interrogations fighting spirit Report No 14h(42)(g) USSBS Index Section 2

Fukuoka interview spirit of people in general Report No 14f(4)(c) USSBS Index Section 2

Nagasaki special interviews Report No 14f(23)(a) USSBS Index Section 2

Education interviews of school officials Report No 14h(27)(b) USSBS Index Section 2

Trend in various quarters relative to the Emperor's sovereign power and other problems Report No 14h(61)(i) USSBS Index Section 2

8 September 1944 Japanese Emperor and the war Report No 22c(42) USSBS Index Section 6

The Emperors Position in Respect to Political and Military Development 1936-1945 Serial No 507 Report No 2(s) USSBS Index Section 8

Planning of the Pearl Harbor Attack Serial No 498 Report No 2o(49) USSBS Index Section 8

Much info can be culled from these documents re POWs (search on "POW" whole words only):

2545 - Intelligence activities in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation
2546 - Intelligence activities in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation
LIFE magazine articles LIFE_The_Japanese_Language_1942-09-07.pdf

LIFE_Japs_Lie_About_US_Heroes_1942-09-14.pdf

LIFE_Tokyo_in_Wartime_1942-09-21.pdf

LIFE_Long_delayed_reports_on_Japanese_atrocities_1944-02-28.pdf

LIFE_Rescue_at_Cabanatuan_1945-02-26.pdf

LIFE_Jap_War_Criminals_Await_Trial_1945-11-12.pdf

LIFE_Tale_of_Treachery_on_Corregidor_Sakakida_and_Provoo_1945-11-22.pdf

Civilian internees:

LIFE_Letter_to_Editors_Prisoners_of_the_Japs_1942-05-25.pdf

LIFE_Americans_Return_from_Japan_Prison_Camps_1942-09-07.pdf

LIFE_Yankee_Girl_Frances_Long_1942-09-07.pdf

LIFE_Report_from_Tokyo_Amb_Grew_1942-12-07.pdf

LIFE_Letter_from_Mormugao_Mydans_1943-11-29.pdf

LIFE_Tomorrow_We_Will_Be_Free_Mydans_1943-12-06.pdf

LIFE_Americans_Return_1943-12-20.pdf

LIFE_Inside_Wartime_Japan_1944-01-24.pdf

LIFE_US_Wins_Hearts_of_Philippines_1945-02-19.pdf

LIFE_Santo _Tomas_Delivered_1945-03-05.pdf

Zamperini MACR_41-24212_Green_Hornet_Zamperini_1943-05-27.pdf
Zamperini_in_POW_list_1944-03-28.pdf
Kobayashi_Trial_excerpts_Zamperini_1948-05-13.pdf
IMTFE_Reviews_218-238-300-305_Zamperini.pdf - Ofuna, Naoetsu, Omori camps
Billy Graham revival in LA with Zamperini - LIFE 1949-11-21.pdf
Zamperini - BOYS LIFE 1944-01.pdf ET CETERA Please seek permission before using! IMTFE_Exhibits_No001-002_to_No171_contents--IN_PROCESS.txt
IMTFE_Review_contents--IN_PROCESS.xlsx

Works by Dwight Rider:

Hog Wild – 1945: One B-29, One Soviet Conspiracy (2012) - Dwight Rider's book about the B-29 on a POW supply mission that was forced down in North Korea... and the Japanese A-bomb project

Burn Before Reading (2016) - Full title, Burn before Reading: The Japanese Atomic Bomb Program, the Battles of the Chosin Reservoir, and the Cave at Koto-ri. Eye-opening story about a mystery that lies within a cave in North Korea, and the struggles that many in intelligence work face.
Japan's Biological and Chemical Weapons Programs; War Crimes and Atrocities: Who’s Who, What’s What and Where’s Where – 1928-1945 - Everything you ever wanted to know, and more, about Japanese bio-chem-weapon research, including Unit 731 and its affiliates.
The Japanese Wartime Atomic Energy and Weapons Research Program – Seishin (Chongjin), Northern Korea. 1938 - 1984
The Kuroda Papers: Translation and Commentary (2020) - by Dwight R. Rider, Dr. Eric Hehl and Wes Injerd
A Dark Valley (2020) - by Dwight R. Rider and Dr. Eric Hehl. Reveals and discusses the history and location of North Korea's primary uranium enrichment facilities at Anju/Sinanju.
Railway of Infinite Regret (2020) - by Dwight R. Rider and Dr. Eric Hehl. Discusses the WWII-era Japanese-constructed Thai-Burma Railway and its possible use as a transportation system supporting the removal of uranium ores in Burma to Japan.
The Taech’on Maskirovka: North Korea’s Clandestine Plutonium Reactors and Uranium Milling Facilities (2020)

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