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.

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
• 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 (, 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
• Unit 731
• Unit 100
• Unit 516
• Zhongma Fortress

Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

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

• (3 camps), Rantau Prapat, North Sumatra
• Ambon (Ambon Island)
• Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java
• Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)
• Bangkong, Semarang, Central Java
• , Central Java
• Bicycle Camp, Batavia, West Java
• Berastagi, North Sumatra
• Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi, East Java
• Glodok Gaol, Glodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java
• (Glugur), Medan, North Sumatra
• Grogol, Batavia, West Java
• , near Makassar, South Celebes (today Sulawesi)
• Kampoeng Makasar, Meester Cornelis, West Java
• Camp Kareës, Bandung, West Java
• Koan School, Batavia (today Jakarta), West Java
• Lampersari, Semarang, Central Java
• Makasoera, Celebes
• Moentilan, Magelang, Central Java
• (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
• Apalon (82 Kilo Camp)
• Aungganaung (105 Kilo Camp)
• Ban Kao
• Ban Pong
• Chungkai
• Hellfire Pass
• Hintok
• Kanchanaburi
• Khonkhan (55 Kilo Camp)
• Konkoita
• Konyu
• Mezali (70 Kilo Camp)
• Nakhon Nayok
• Niki Niki
• Nong Pladuk
• Paya Thanzu Taung (108 Kilo Camp)
• Rephaw (30 Kilo Camp)
• Sonkrai (Songkurai)
• Tamarkan
• Tampi
• Tarsao
• Taungzun (60 Kilo Camp)
• Tha Kanun (Takanun)
• Thanbaya (53 Kilo Camp)
• Thanbyuzayat
• Three Pagodas Pass
• Wang Pho

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. 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

Guam

• Manenggon

Japan

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

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