英和和英

出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/09 02:54 UTC 版)

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A hell ship is a ship with extremely unpleasant living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew. It now generally refers to the ships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy to transport Allied prisoners of war (POWs) out of the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore during World War II. The POWs were taken to Japan, Taiwan, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor. In Japanese, they are known as jigoku-sen (地獄船^?), with the same literal meaning.