List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II
This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.
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Camps in the Philippines[]
- Cabanatuan
- Davao Prison and Penal Farm
- Camp O'Donnell
- Los Baños
- Santo Tomas Internment Camp
- Bilibid Prison
- Puerto Princesa Prison Camp
- Camp John Hay
- Camp Holmes Internment Camp
- Camp Manganese, Guindulman, Bohol
- Camp Malolos, Bulacan
Camps in Malaya and Singapore[]
- Changi Prison, Singapore
- , Singapore
- , Singapore
- Blakang Mati, Sentosa, Singapore
- Anderson School, Ipoh, Perak State, Malaya - civilians
- , Singapore
- Sime Road, Singapore
- No 2 and no 5 detached camp, Port Dickson, Malaya[1]
- No 1 detached camp, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya - possibly Pudu Prison
Camps in Formosa (Taiwan)[]
Camps in North Borneo[]
- (Kota Kinabalu)
- Sandakan camp (Sandakan)
Camps in Sarawak[]
- Batu Lintang camp (Batu Lintang, Kuching)
Camps in China[]
Haiphong Road
- Ash Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- (Shanghai)
- Columbia Country Club Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Fengtai Prison
- Kiangwang POW Camp
- Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Lushun (Port Arthur) POW Camp
- Woosung POW Camp (Shanghai)
- Weihsien Civil Assembly Center (Weihsien)
- Yu Yuen Road Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- (Shanghai)
Camps in Manchuria[]
- Hoten Camp
- Harbin Camp
- Mukden POW Camp[2]
- Zhongma Fortress
Camps in Dutch East Indies[]
Japanese Internment Camps in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia):[3]
- Rantau Prapat, North Sumatra (3 camps),
- Ambon (Ambon Island)
- Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java
- , Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)
- Bangkong, Semarang, Central Java
- , Central Java
- , Batavia, West Java
- Berastagi, North Sumatra
- Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi, East Java
- , Glodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java
- Medan, North Sumatra (Glugur),
- Grogol, Batavia, West Java[4]
- Makassar, South Celebes (today Sulawesi) , near
- , Batavia, West Java
- , Bandung, West Java[5][6]
- , Batavia (today Jakarta), West Java
- , Semarang, Central Java
- , Celebes
- Moentilan, Magelang, Central Java
- Medan, North Sumatra (5 camps) (Pulo Brayan),
- , Pontianak (Dutch Borneo) (today Kalimantan)
- (Siringo-ringo), Labuhanbatu, North Sumatra
- , , Batavia, West Java
- Tebing Tinggi, North Sumatra
- Tjideng, Batavia, West Java
- , Buitenzorg (now Cibarusah, Bekasi), West Java
- Tjimahi (now Cimahi, 6 camps), West Java
- Usapa Besar, Timor
Camps in Thailand and Burma[]
- [7]
- Apalon (82 Kilo Camp)[7][8]
- (105 Kilo Camp)[9]
- Ban Kao[7]
- Ban Pong[7]
- Chungkai[7]
- Hellfire Pass[10]
- Hintok[7]
- Kanchanaburi[7]
- (55 Kilo Camp)[11]
- Konkoita[7]
- [7]
- Mezali (70 Kilo Camp)[12]
- [7]
- Nong Pladuk[7]
- Paya Thanzu Taung (108 Kilo Camp)[13]
- Rephaw (30 Kilo Camp)[14]
- Sonkrai (Songkurai)[15]
- Tamarkan[7]
- [7]
- Tarsao[7]
- (60 Kilo Camp)[16]
- Tha Kanun (Takanun)[17][18]
- Thanbaya (53 Kilo Camp)[19][20]
- Thanbyuzayat[7]
- Three Pagodas Pass[21]
- Wang Pho[7]
Camps in New Guinea[]
- Rabaul
- Oransbari - Civilian internment camp. Alamo Scouts liberated a family of 14 Dutch-Indos, a family of 12 French, and 40 Javanese on 5 Oct 1944.[22]Zedric, Lance Q. Silent Warriors: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines (Pathfinder 1995).
Camps in Portuguese Timor[]
Camps in Korea[]
- Inchon
- Hamhung
Camps in Hong Kong[]
- Argyle Street Camp
- Ma Tau Chung Camp
- Ma Tau Wai Camp
- North Point Camp
- Sham Shui Po Camp
- Stanley Internment Camp[23][24]
Camps in Japan[]
This section needs additional citations for verification. (May 2014) |
- Akasaka
- #6B
- Akita
- (or Okuma) (Fukuoka #22)
- Aomori (Ōmori, Tokyo Base Camp #1)
- Arao
- Asahigawa
- Ashio
- Atami
- Beppu
- Branch Camp #3
- Camp #11 (Fukuoka #11) (Later renamed #8)
- Chiba
- (or Chuzenji)
- Franciscan Monastery
- Fukuoka #17
- Funatsu
- Furumaki
- Fuse
- (Fukuoka #10, later renamed #7)
- Gifu - Nagara Hotel
- Hakodate #2 ( or Akabira)
- Hakodate #3 ()
- Hakodate Divisional Camp
- Hakodate Main Camp
- Hakone
- Hanawa Sendai #6
- Harina (or Harima)
- Village
- (Subcamp #10)
- Himeji
- (Subcamp #3)
- Divisional Camp
- Hitachi (Ibaraki-Ken Camp #D12)
- Hitachi Motoyama
- Ichioka (or Itchioka) Stadium Hospital
- Iizuka (Probably #7)
- Ikuno (Osaka #4B)
- (Subcamp #2)
- Christian Fellowship Home
- Kamioka
- Subcamp #1
- (or Kamita) Kozan (Sendai #11)
- Kanagawa Kenko
- Kanagawa Tokyo 2nd Div.
- Kanazawa
- Kanose
- Karuizawa
- (or Kashu) Camp #1 (Fukuoka #1)
- Kawasaki #1
- Kawasaki Dispatch Camp #5
- Kawasaki Subcamp #2 ("Mitsui Madhouse")
- Kempei Tai
- Kobe
- Kobe (Camp #31)
- Kobe POW Hospital
- Kōchi
- Kosaka (Sendai Camp #8)
- Koshian Hotel
- Shima (Fukuoka #2)
- Kumamoto (First location of Fukuoka #1)
- Kure
- Kurume
- - branches at Hakata
- Maibara
- Mito
- Mitsu Branch Camp #5
- Mitsushima (or Matsushima) Camp #2D
- Miyata (Fukuoka #9B)
- Mizumaki
- Moji #4
- Moji Hospital
- Morioka
- Motoyama Subcamp #8
- Mukaishima Island Subcamp #1 (Hiroshima Sub-Camp #4)
- Murakami
- Muroran (Kamiso Machi Camp #73)
- Nakama #21 (Fukuoka #21) (Also spelled Nacama)
- Nagasaki
- Nagasaki #14
- Nagasaki #2 (Same as #139)
- Nagasaki #4
- Nagoya Main Camp
- Nagoya Subcamp #10
- Narashino Airport
- Narumi
- Niigata (Subcamp #5)
- Niihama Branch Camp #2
- Nogeyama Park
- Prison Camp (Niigata Ken)
- #9B
- Odate
- Oeyama (or Oyama)
- Ōfuna Camp
- Ohama Subcamp #9
- Ohashi
- Old City Hall
- Subcamp #6
- Ōmori Main Camp
- Ōmuta Camp #17 Fukuoka 17
- Branch Camp #8
- Branch Camp #9
- Osaka #1 Headquarters Camp (Chikko)
- Osaka Central Market
- Otaru[25]
- Rangoon
- Sakai Prison
- (Sendai 9-B)[26]
- Sakurajima
- Sakurajima Ichioka School
- Sapporo Penitentiary
- Sasebo (Fukuoka #18)
- Sekiguchi at
- Sendai
- Shibaura
- Shimodate
- Hitachi
- Shinagawa Main Camp
- Shinagawa POW Hospital
- Shinjuku Camp #1
- Shizuoka
- Subcamp #12 (Fukuoka #12)
- Sumidagawa
- Suzuki Aio No Moto Factory
- Takadanobaba
- Tamano Branch Camp #3
- Tan Tui (or Tan tooey)
- (or Temiya) Park Stadium
- Tobata (Fukuoka #3)
- Tomakomai
- Toyama
- (or Toyooka)
- Tsumori (Osaka Subcamp #13B)
- Tsuruga Divisional Camp #5B
- Subcamp #5
- Ube Subcamp #7
- (Osaka Warehouse)
- Uraga
- (or Iwake or Yuwake)
- Wakayama
- (Osaka #18-B)
- Yamashita Camp #1
- Yodogawa
- Yokkaichi
- Yokohama #5
- Yonago
- Yura
- Zentsuji Headquarters Camp
- Zentsuji Subcamp #3
See also[]
- List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Australia
- List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada
- List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Italy
- List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom
- List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States
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- ^ "Rephaw". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Songkurai". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
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- ^ Breu, Mary (2009). Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW. Portland: Graphic Arts Books. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-88240-852-1.
- ^ url=http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/sendai/sendai_09_sakata/sen_09b_sakata_aussie_dutch.html
External links[]
- Fairly comprehensive list
- Lat/Long locations (Google Earth) of former Japanese POW camps in Japan
- ALL-JAPAN POW CAMP GROUP HISTORY link is dead and should be replaced via archive.org
- The story of the Taiwan POWs
- About Prisoners of Santo Tomas
- Tjideng Camp
- Personal Memoirs of Signalman Clifford Reddish : a Prisoner held by the Japanese.
- POW Research Network Japan
A comprehensive English-language site in Japan with exact opening/closure resp. renaming/reclassification dates of the various camps based on Japanese official sources which should be imported into the current listing:
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