Japanese Surrendered Personnel
- Japanese Surrendered Personnel
Japanese Surrendered Personnel (or JSP) is a designation for captive Japanese soldiers (similar to Disarmed Enemy Forces and Surrendered Enemy Personnel). It was used in particular by British Forces referring to Japanese forces in Asia after the end of World War II.
Military and other forced labor
The JSP's were until at least 1947 used for enforced labor purposes, such as road maintenance, recovering corpses for reburial, cleaning, preparing farmland etc.
After the war the U.K. quickly worked to regain control of its colonial territories, and also worked to ensure that the Dutch and French could regain control of their colonial territories. Due to British manpower shortages in the combat against the local resistance fighters who sought national independence, JSP were often pressed into combat service alongside British occupation troops.Fact|date=September 2008
Legality of the JSP designation
The U.S. repeatedly questioned the validity of the British JSP designation, to no avail. ["Japanese Prisoners of War" By Philip Towle, Margaret Kosuge, Yōichi Kibata. p. 146 ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=ktCv32ysz0AC&pg=PA146&dq=Japanese+Surrendered+Personnel&sig=ACfU3U3jC4CF86eWZG7UTpCCANFfYLuSDg#PPA146,M1 Google.Books] )]
ee also
* Disarmed Enemy Forces
* Surrendered Enemy Personnel
* Prisoner of War
* Combatant
* Illegal combatant
* Laws of war
* Prisoner-of-war camp
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