Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei:
Ina ua faatoilaloina le Kuantung Army i Manchuria, na auina atu Iapani POWs mai Manchuria, Korea, South Sakhalin ma Kuril Islands i Primorski Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Kazakhstan (South Kazakhstan Province ma Zhambyl Province), Buryat-Mongol ASSR, ma Uzbek SSR. I le 1946, e 49 nofoaga o faasalaga mamafa mo pagota Iapani na pulea e le GUPVI, ma e pe ā ma le 500,000 tagata na nonofo ai. E lē gata i lea, e lua isi tolauapiga mo i latou na faasalaina i solitulafono eseese. Na vaevaeina pagota i ni vaega e toʻa 1,000 tagata. Na faafalepuipuiina foʻi nisi o alii ma tamaʻitaʻi Iapani, faapea foʻi ma tagata Korea, ina ua lē lava ni fitafita e faatumu ai se vaega.