Editing Prisoner of war (section)

====Japanese====
After the [[Soviet–Japanese War]], 560,000 to 760,000 [[Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union|Japanese prisoners of war]] were captured by the Soviet Union. The prisoners were captured in [[Manchuria]], Korea, South [[Sakhalin]] and the [[Kuril Islands]], then sent to work as forced labour in the Soviet Union and [[Mongolia]].<ref name="sankeishinbun">{{cite web|url=http://sankei.jp.msn.com/world/europe/090724/erp0907240115000-n1.htm |title=シベリア抑留、露に７６万人分の資料 軍事公文書館でカード発見 |access-date=21 September 2009 |date=24 July 2009 |work=Sankeishinbun |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726100909/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/world/europe/090724/erp0907240115000-n1.htm |archive-date=26 July 2009 }}</ref> An estimated 60,000 to 347,000 of these Japanese prisoners of war died in captivity.<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/63012.stm Japanese POW group says files on over 500,000 held in Moscow] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124051112/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/63012.stm |date=24 January 2008 }}, ''[[BBC News]]'', 7 March 1998</ref><ref name="UN Press Release">[http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/8D22741F69F38DD3802568C40036B229?opendocument UN Press Release] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929084218/http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/8D22741F69F38DD3802568C40036B229?opendocument |date=29 September 2007 }}, [[Commission on Human Rights]], 56th session, 13 April 2000.</ref><ref name="zagor">[http://www.auditorium.ru/books/407/ POW in the USSR 1939–1956: Documents and Materials] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102082712/http://www.auditorium.ru/books/407/|date=2 November 2007}} Moscow ''[[Logos Publishers]] (2000)'' (Военнопленные в СССР. 1939–1956: Документы и материалы Науч.-исслед. ин-т проблем экон. истории ХХ века и др.; Под ред. М.М. Загорулько. – М.: Логос, 2000. – 1118 с.: ил.) {{ISBN|5-88439-093-9}}</ref><ref name="Ann">[[Anne Applebaum]] ''Gulag: A History'', Doubleday, April 2003, {{ISBN|0-7679-0056-1}}; p. 431.[http://www.anneapplebaum.com/gulag/intro.html Introduction online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013124127/http://anneapplebaum.com/gulag/intro.html |date=13 October 2007 }})</ref>