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Under terms of the Red Cross Convention, interned U.S. fighting men were being mistreated only to the extent that the Japanese standard of living was abusively lower than the U.S. standard. These men received the pay and rations of men and officers of similar rank in the Jap forces. After as valiant a fight as history records, thousands of these men faced months of a Jap soldier's diet of rice and raw fish. How long before they tasted ham & eggs again was up to the U.S.
* Which Japan approved in principle, like Russia did not ratify.