List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II

Further information: Far East prisoners of war, Prisoner-of-war camp, List of concentration and internment camps, and Allied prisoners of war in Japan

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.

A map (front) 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.

Back 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.

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

Malaya and the Straits Settlements (Singapore)

• Changi Prison, Singapore
• Selarang Barracks, Singapore
• River Valley Camp, Singapore
• Blakang Mati, Sentosa, Singapore
• Outram Road Prison, 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
• Unit 9420

Formosa (Taiwan)

• Kinkaseki#1
• 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)
• Giran (Yilan)

British Borneo (Brunei and East Malaysia)

• Batu Lintang camp (Batu Lintang, Kuching)
• Jesselton camp (Kota Kinabalu)
• Sandakan camp (Sandakan)

China

• 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
• Unit 1855 (Beijing)
• Unit 1644 (Nanjing)
• Unit 8604 (Guangzhou)
• Unit 543 (Hailar District)
• Wusong POW Camp (Wusong, Shanghai)
• Weixian Civil Assembly Center (Wei County  [ zh ], near Weifang)
• Yu Yuen Road Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
• Yangtzepoo Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
• Zikawei Camp

Manchukuo (Manchuria)

• Hoten Camp
• Harbin Camp
• Mukden POW Camp ^[2]
• Unit 731
• Unit 100
• Unit 516
• Zhongma Fortress

Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

Japanese Internment Camps in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia): ^[3]

• Aek Pamienke  [ nl ] (3 camps), Rantau Prapat, North Sumatra
• Ambon (Ambon Island)
• Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java
• Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)
• Bangkong, Semarang, Central Java
• Banjoebiroe (Semarang)  [ nl ], Central Java
• Bicycle Camp, Batavia, West Java
• Brastagi (internment camp)  [ nl ] Berastagi, North Sumatra
• Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi, East Java
• Glodok Gaol, Glodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java
• Gloegoer  [ id ] (Glugur), Medan, North Sumatra
• Grogol, Batavia, West Java ^[4]
• Kampili camp  [ nl ], near Makassar, South Celebes (today Sulawesi)
• Kampoeng Makasar, Meester Cornelis, West Java
• Camp Kareës, Bandung, West Java ^{[5] [6]}
• Koan School, Batavia (today Jakarta), West Java
• Lampersari, Semarang, Central Java
• Makasoera, Celebes
• Moentilan, Magelang, Central Java
• Poeloe Brayan  [ nl; id ] (5 camps) (Pulo Brayan), Medan, North Sumatra
• Pontianak POW camp, Pontianak (Dutch Borneo) (today Kalimantan)
• Si Rengo Rengo (Siringo-ringo), Labuhanbatu, North Sumatra
• Tandjong Priok POW camp, Tandjong Priok, Batavia, West Java
• Tebing Tinggi, North Sumatra
• Tjideng, Batavia, West Java
• Tjibaroesa, Buitenzorg (now part of Bekasi), West Java
• Klapanoenggal, Buitenzorg, West Java
• Tjimahi (6 camps), West Java
• Usapa Besar, Timor

Thailand and Burma (Myanmar)

• Anakwin ^[7]
• Apalon (82 Kilo Camp) ^{[7] [8]}
• Aungganaung (105 Kilo Camp) ^[9]
• Ban Kao ^[7]
• Ban Pong ^[7]
• Chungkai ^[7]
• Hellfire Pass ^[10]
• Hintok ^[7]
• Kanchanaburi ^[7]
• Khonkhan (55 Kilo Camp) ^[11]
• Konkoita ^[7]
• Konyu ^[7]
• Mezali (70 Kilo Camp) ^[12]
• Nakhon Nayok
• Niki Niki ^[7]
• Nong Pladuk ^[7]
• Paya Thanzu Taung (108 Kilo Camp) ^[13]
• Rephaw (30 Kilo Camp) ^[14]
• Sonkrai (Songkurai) ^[15]
• Tamarkan ^[7]
• Tampi ^[7]
• Tarsao ^[7]
• Taungzun (60 Kilo Camp) ^[16]
• Tha Kanun (Takanun) ^{[17] [18]}
• Thanbaya (53 Kilo Camp) ^{[19] [20]}
• Thanbyuzayat ^[7]
• Three Pagodas Pass ^[21]
• Wang Pho ^[7]

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).

Portuguese (East) Timor

• Baucau
• Dili

Korea

• Inchon
• Seoul (Keijō)
• Hamhung

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]}

Guam

• Manenggon

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
• Honshu, (Naniwa Camp)
• 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 Kurihara
• 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 ^[25]
• Oyeama
• Park Central Camp
• Park Central Stadium
• Roku Roshi
• Sakai Prison
• Sakata Branch Camp, Yamagata (Sendai 9-B) ^[26]
• 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

1. Malay POW camps, retrieved 26 June 2021
2. "World War II POWs remember efforts to strike against captors". The Times-Picayune. Associated Press. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
3. "Japanese Internment Camps".
4. "Grogol". Japanse Burgerkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
5. "Camp Kareës". Mijnverhaal-over-nedindie. 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
6. "Civilian camps". Indische Kamp Archieven. East Indies Camp Archives. 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
7. "Birma Spoorweg". Japanse Krijgsgevangenkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
8. "Apalon". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
9. "Aungganaung". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
10. "Section 2b". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
11. "Khonkhan". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
12. "Mezali". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
13. "Paya Thanzu Taung". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
14. "Rephaw". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
15. "Songkurai". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
16. "Taungzun". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
17. "Tha Kannun". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
18. "Takanun". Japanse Krijgsgevangenkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
19. "Thanbaya". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
20. "Tanbaya". Japanse Krijgsgevangenkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
21. "Section 4a". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
22. Zedric, Lance Q. Silent No More: The Alamo Scouts in Their Own Words (War Room Press 2013).
23. Antiquities Advisory Board. List of Internment Camps in Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation (1941 – 1945)
24. "POW Research". Hong Kong War Diary. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
25. 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.
26. 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
• 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
• Map of WWII Japanese POW camps
• Okinoyama – The Story of a Coal Mine, John Oxley Library blog, State Library of Queensland. Includes digitised photographs of within the Okinoyama Prisoner of War Camp.

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:

• Camps in Japan proper
• Camps outside Japan
• japanseburgerkampen.nl (in Dutch)