JAPANESE RULES ON HELLSHIPS
"Immediate Death for Disobeying any Order"

This document was declassified after July 1974

These are translated copies of directives
sent by Japanese Military Headquarters, Tokyo to
all commanding officers of Japanese Military POW Facilities.
.....  JAPANESE RULES ON HELLSHIPS  .....

 

      Posted July 7, 2001
      Declassified document, courtesy of James T. Murphy, Noto Maru Hellship survivor