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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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 Singapore
  • Changi Prison
  • Salarang Barracks
  • River Valley Camp
  • Blakang Mati
  • Anderson School, Ipoh, Perak State, Malaya
  • Outram Road Prison
  • Sime Road

Camps in Formosa (Taiwan)

Camps in North Borneo

Camps in Sarawak

Camps in China

Haiphong Road

Camps in Manchuria

Camps in Dutch East Indies

Japanese Internment Camps in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia):[2]

  • Aek Pamienke (3 camps), Rantau Prapat, North Sumatra
  • Ambon (Ambon Island)
  • Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java
  • Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)
  • Bangkong, Semarang, Central Java
  • Banyubiru (Semarang), Central Java
  • Bicycle Camp, Batavia, West Java
  • Brastagi (internment camp) Berastagi, North Sumatra
  • Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi Regency, East Java
  • Glodok Gaol, Glodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java
  • Gloegoer (Glugur), Medan, North Sumatra
  • Grogol, Batavia, West Java[3]
  • Kampili camp, near Makassar, South Celebes (today Sulawesi)
  • Kampung Makasar, Batavia, West Java
  • Camp Kareës, Bandung, West Java[4][5]
  • Koan School, Batavia (today Jakarta), West Java
  • Kota Paris, Bogor, West Java
  • Lampersari, Semarang, Central Java
  • Makasura, Celebes
  • Muntilan, Magelang, Central Java
  • Poeloe Brayan (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, Batavia, West Java
  • Tjimahi (now Cimahi, 6 camps), West Java
  • Usapa Besar, Timor

Camps in Thailand and Burma

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.[6]Zedric, Lance Q. Silent Warriors: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines (Pathfinder 1995).

Camps in Portuguese Timor

Camps in Korea

Camps in Hong Kong

Camps in Japan

See also

References
  1. "World War II POWs remember efforts to strike against captors". The Times-Picayune. Associated Press. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  2. https://www.japanseburgerkampen.nl/IndexE.htm
  3. "Grogol". Japanse Burgerkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  4. "Camp Kareës". Mijnverhaal-over-nedindie. 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  5. "Civilian camps". Indische Kamp Archieven. East Indies Camp Archives. 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  6. Zedric, Lance Q. Silent No More: The Alamo Scouts in Their Own Words (War Room Press 2013).
  7. "POW Research". Hong Kong War Diary. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  8. 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.
  9. 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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