The United States provided these countries with aid through the Lend Lease program to cover the costs of maintaining the prisoners, and retained responsibility for repatriating the men to Japan at the end of the war.
W zamian Stany Zjednoczone wspomagały te kraje w ramach programu Lend-Lease, by pokryć koszty utrzymania jeńców i ich repatriacji do Japonii po wojnie.