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Undiscovered Zhoushan: Dongji Islands
East Pole Islands or Dongji Dao
Qingbangdao
Nimori Genichiro
Lisbon Maru (りすぼん丸) was a Japanese freighter which was used as a troopship and prisoner-of-war transport between China and Japan. On 1 October 1942, while carrying almost 2,000 British and Commonwealth prisoners, she was torpedoed by a US Navy submarine and sank the following day. More than 800 of these men died, many of whom were shot or otherwise killed by the Japanese while they were seeking rescue.
After the capture of Hong Kong by the Imperial Japanese Army on 25 December 1941, some 11,000 British, Canadian, Indian and locally recruited troops became prisoners of war.[1] During 1942, the Japanese found that they had a worsening shortage of labour in their home islands, so they began the transfer of Allied prisoners of war to Japan for forced labour in mines, construction, industry and agriculture.[2]