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20 Japanese internment and POW camps identified   2015-09-01

 

 

HISTORIANS have identified the locations of 20 internment and prison-of-war camps created by Japanese troops in Shanghai during World War II.

These feature on a map released yesterday by researchers at Shanghai Normal University.

“Most of the camps have been mentioned by historians, but few of them know the exact locations,” said Su Zhiliang, a history professor at the university who led the group,