The Japanese Trans-Pacific Express Duo

M/S Asama Maru             M/S Tatsuta Maru
       

RETURN TO THE HOMEPAGE                                                                                                                                                                                                                             THE OCEAN LINERS
 


Welcome to our website paying tribute to two of the finest and most luxurious Japanese ocean liners ever to sail the Pacific – the Asama Maru and Tatsuta Maru. However while these two ships had glamorous lives in peacetime, in wartime they were "Hell Ships" and used to carry British and Allied PoWs to camps in Japan and elsewhere. Here the prisoners were treated appallingly and used as slaves and often died long, horrific and lingering deaths in captivity. Those PoWs that survived the war were forever scarred by their ordeal.

<>As a result they had a key role as "Hell Ships" in one of the most abhorent episodes of history and Japanese war crimes. The demise of these ships was deserved and just retribution for their dark and infamous wartime history as these ships are forever tarnished due to their association with Japanese war crimes and their role as "Hell Ships" transporting British and Allied PoWs to horrendous fates in the camps.   		 

M.S. Asama Maru

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M.S. Tatsutu Maru
     
 
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Their Regular Service Route: China and Japan to Hawaii and the USA

Hong Kong to Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama,  Honolulu (Hawaii), Los Angeles and San Francisco transpacific service

"THE TRANSPACIFIC SERVICE"

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA (NYK), YOKOHAMA

(NYK LINE)




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