Omine, Hiroshima #6-B - Japan

Omine, Hiroshima POW Camp #6-B Sanyo Camp, Omine-machi, Honshu

Camp was located on a hillside in the Onoda Coal Mine area, NE of Ube. POW housed in two-storied wooden buildings.

This camp was a slave labour camp for Sanyo Corporation using a coal mine declared unsafe before the war.

Entrance to Omine Coal Mine

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