The japs thought that it was a privallege for them to die before the emperor as this gave them a certain entrance into heaven. 22,000 Australians became prisoners of war in the fall of Singapore and...
Australians had the highest survival rate of all the allies held by the sadistict japanese.
Even though they had the highest survival rate, only six people survived in the Sandakan Death March.
Many Australian and other prisoners were forced by the Japanese to help build the Burma (Death) Railway. (See the well known film "The Bridge on the River Kwai").