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.

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.

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

Camps in the Philippines

Camps in Malaya and the Straits Settlements (Singapore)

Camps in Formosa (Taiwan)

Camps in British Borneo (Brunei and East Malaysia)

Camps in China

Camps in Manchuria

Camps in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

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

Camps in Thailand and Burma (Myanmar)

Camps in North Africa

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 (East) Timor

Camps in Korea

Camps in Hong Kong

Camps in Japan

See also

References
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  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)
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  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

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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