List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II
Main article: Prisoner-of-war camp
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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A map (obverse) of Imperial Japanese-run prisoner-of-war camps within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere known during World War II from 1941 to 1945.
Reverse of map of Imperial Japanese-run prisoner-of-war camps with a list of the camps categorized geographically and an additional detailed map of camps located on the Japanese archipelago.
Published by the Medical Research Committee of American Ex-Prisoners of War, Inc., 1980.
Published by the Medical Research Committee of American Ex-Prisoners of War, Inc., 1980.
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, Bulcan
Camps in Malaya and Singapore
- Changi Prison
- Salarang Barracks
- River Valley Camp
- Blakang Mati
- Anderson School, Ipoh, Perak State, Malaya
- Outram Road Prison
- Sime Road
Camps in Formosa (modern Taiwan)
- Kinkaseki#1 Jinguashi
- Taichu#2 (Taichung)
- Heito#3 (PingTung)
- Shirakawa#4 (Chiayi)
- Taihoku#5 Mosak (Taipei)
- Taihoku#6 (Taipei)
- Karenko (Hualien)
- Tamazato (YuLi)
- Kukutsu (Taipei)
- Oka (Taipei)
- Toroku - (Touliu)
- Inrin - (Yuanlin)
- Inrin Temporary (Yuanlin)
- Takao (Kaohsiung)
- Churon (Taipei)
- Tiahokum (Taipei)
Camps in North Borneo
- Jesselton
- Sandakan
Camps in Sarawak
Camps in China
Haiphong Road
- Ash Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Chapei Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Columbia Country Club Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Fengtai Prison
- Kiangwang POW Camp
- Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Lushun (Port Arthur) POW Camp
- Mukden POW Camp[1]
- Woosung POW Camp (Shanghai)
- Weihsien Civil Assembly Center (Weihsien)
- Yu Yuen Road Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Yangtzepoo Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Zikawei Camp
Camps in Manchuria
Camps in Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia)
- Ambon (Ambon Island)
- Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java
- Bangkong, Java
- Banyubiru (Semarang), Central Java
- Camp Kareës, Bandung, West Java[2][3]
- Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi Regency, East Java
- Koan School, Batavia (modern Jakarta), West Java
- Glodok Gaol, Golodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java
- Bicycle Camp, Batavia, West Java
- Tjideng, Batavia, West Java
- Lampersari, Java
- Muntilan, Central Java
- Tandjong Priok POW camp, Tandjong Priok, Java
- Tjimahi (now Cimahi, 6 camps), Java
- Banyubiru, Java
- Pontianak POW camp, Pontianak (Dutch Borneo) (modern Kalimantan)
- Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)
- Kampili camp, near Makassar, South Celebes (modern Sulawesi)
- Makasura, Celebes
- Aek Pamienke (3 camps), North Sumatra
- Brastagi (Berastagi), North Sumatra
- Gloegoer (Glugur), Sumatra
- Poeloe Brayan (5 camps), North Sumatra
- Si Rengo Rengo (Siringo-ringo), Sumatra
- Tebing Tinggi, Sumatra
- Usapa Besar, Timor
Camps in Thailand and Burma
- Niki Niki
- Kanchanaburi
- Sonkrai
Camps in New Guinea
Camps in Korea
Camps in Hong Kong
- Argyle Street Camp
- Ma Tau Chong Camp
- Ma Tau Wai Camp
- North Point Camp
- Sham Shui Po Camp
- Stanley Internment Camp
Camps in Japan
- Achi Yamakita
- Aioshi
- Akasaka
- Akenobe #6B
- Akita
- Amagasaki Subcamp
- Aokuma (or Okuma) (Fukuoka #22)
- Aomori (Ōmori, Tokyo Base Camp #1)
- Arao
- Asahigawa
- Ashio
- Ashikago
- Atami
- Beppu
- Bibai-Machi Branch Camp #3
- Camp #11 (Fukuoka #11) (Later renamed #8)
- Camp #23
- Chiba
- Chugenji (or Chuzenji)
- Franciscan Monastery
- Fukuoka #17
- Fuji
- Funatsu
- Furashi
- Furumaki
- Fuse
- Futase (Fukuoka #10, later renamed #7)
- Futatsui City
- Gifu - Nagara Hotel
- Hakodate #2 (Utashinia or Akabira)
- Hakodate #3 (Utashin1a)
- Hakodate Divisional Camp
- Hakodate Main Camp
- Hakone
- Hanawa Sendai #6
- Harina (or Harima)
- Hayashi Village
- Higashi-Misone (Subcamp #10)
- Himeji
- Hiraoka (Subcamp #3)
- Hirohata Divisional Camp
- Hitachi (Ibaraki-Ken Camp #D12)
- Hitachi Motoyama
- Ichioka (or Itchioka) Stadium Hospital
- Iizuka (Probably #7)
- Ikuno (Osaka #4B)
- Imoshima Island (Subcamp #2)
- Kagawa Christian Fellowship Home
- Kamioka
- Kamiso Subcamp #1
- Kamitan (or Kamita) Kozan (Sendai #11)
- Kanagawa Kenko
- Kanagawa Tokyo 2nd Div.
- Kanazawa
- Kanose
- Karuizawa
- Kashii (or Kashu) Camp #1 (Fukuoka #1)
- Kawasaki #1
- Kawasaki Camp - Kobe
- Kawasaki Dispatch Camp #5
- Kawasaki Subcamp #2 ("Mitsui Madhouse")
- Kempei Tai
- Kita Corygara
- Kobe
- Kobe (Camp #31)
- Kobe POW Hospital
- Kōchi
- Kosaka (Sendai Camp #8)
- Koshian Hotel
- Koyagi Shima (Fukuoka #2)
- Kumamoto (First location of Fukuoka #1)
- Kure
- Kurume
- Kyota - branches at Hakata
- Maibara
- Maisure
- Minato-ku
- Mito
- Mitsu Branch Camp #5
- Mitsuishi
- Mitsushima (or Matsushima) Camp #2D
- Miyata (Fukuoka #9B)
- Mizumaki
- Mizonkuchi
- Moji #4
- Moji Hospital
- Morioka
- Motoyama Subcamp #8
- Mukaishima Island Subcamp #1 (Hiroshima Sub-Camp #4)
- Murakami
- Muroran (Kamiso Machi Camp #73)
- Myoshi
- Nakama #21 (Fukuoka #21) (Also spelled Nacama)
- Nagasaki
- Nagasaki #14
- Nagasaki #2 (Same as #139)
- Nagasaki #4
- Nagoya Main Camp
- Nagoya Subcamp #10
- Nakano
- Narashino Airport
- Narumi
- Niigata (Subcamp #5)
- Niihama Branch Camp #2
- Nogeyama Park
- Naoetsu Prison Camp (Niigata Ken)
- Notogawa #9B
- Odate
- Oeyama (or Oyama)
- Ōfuna Camp
- Ohama Subcamp #9
- Ohashi
- Old City Hall
- Omine Subcamp #6
- Ōmori Main Camp
- Ōmuta Camp #17 Fukuoka 17
- Onada Branch Camp #8
- Onada Branch Camp #9
- Osaka #1 Headquarters Camp (Chikko)
- Osaka Central Market
- Otaru
- Oyeama
- Park Central Camp
- Park Central Stadium
- Rangoon
- Roku Roshi
- Sakai Prison
- Sakurajima
- Sakurajima Ichioka School
- Sapporo Penitentiary
- Sasebo (Fukuoka #18)
- Sekiguchi at Koishikawaku
- Sendai
- Shibaura
- Shimodate
- Shimomago Hitachi
- Shimonseki
- Shinagawa Main Camp
- Shinagawa POW Hospital
- Shingu
- Shinjuku Camp #1
- Shizuoka
- Subcamp #12 (Fukuoka #12)
- Sumidagawa
- Sumiyoshi-ku
- Suzuki Aio No Moto Factory
- Suzurandai
- Takadanobaba
- Tamano Branch Camp #3
- Tanagawa
- Tan Tui (or Tan tooey)
- Teniya (or Temiya) Park Stadium
- Tobata (Fukuoka #3)
- Tomakomai
- Toyama
- Toyoka (or Toyooka)
- Tsumori (Osaka Subcamp #13B)
- Tsuruga Divisional Camp #5B
- Tsurumi Subcamp #5
- Ube Subcamp #7
- Umeda Bonshu (Osaka Warehouse)
- Uraga
- Utsonomiya
- Uywake (or Iwake or Yuwake)
- Wakasen
- Wakayama
- Wakinohama (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
References
- ↑ "World War II POWs remember efforts to strike against captors". The Times-Picayune. Associated Press. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ↑ "Camp Kareës". Mijnverhaal-over-nedindie. 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ "Civilian camps". Indische Kamp Archieven. East Indies Camp Archives. 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ "POW Research". Hong Kong War Diary. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
External links
- Fairly comprehensive list
- Lat/Long locations (Google Earth) of former Japanese POW camps in Japan
- ALL-JAPAN POW CAMP GROUP HISTORY
- 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.
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