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)
Taihoku Prison
Giran (Yilan)
Maruyama

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 45 Kilo Camp from Thanbyuzayat
Aungganaung 105 Kilo Camp from Thanbyuzayat
Ban Kao 88 km from Nong Pladuc
Ban Pong 3 km from Nong Pladuc
Chungkai 60 km from Nong Pladuc
Hellfire Pass 152 km from Nong Pladuc
Hintok 154 km from Nong Pladuc
Kanchanaburi 53 km from Nong Pladuc
Khonkhan 55 Kilo Camp from Thanbyuzayat
Kinsaiyok 171 km from Nong Pladuc
Konkoita 262.5 km from Nong Pladuc
Konyu 152 km from Nong Pladuc
Mezali 70 Kilo Camp from Thanbyuzayat
Nam Chon Yai 229 km from Nong Pladuc
Nakhon Nayok 2 camps: Officers and ORs
Nikki 282 km from Nong Pladuc
Nong Pladuk Nong Pladuc, Thailand 0 km
Paya Thanzu Taung 108 Kilo Camp from Thanbyuzayat
Prang Kasi 211 km from Thanbyuzayat
Rephaw 30 Kilo Camp from Thanbyuzayat
Sonkrai (Songkurai) 294 km from Nong Pladuc
Tamarkan 56km from Nong Pladuc
Tampi 148 km from Nong Pladuc
Tarsao 125 km from Nong Pladuc
Taungzun 60 Kilo Camp from Thanbyuzayat
Tha Khanun (Takanun) 218 km from Nong Pladuc
Tha Kilen 98km from Nong Pladuc
Tha Mayo 237 km from Nong Pladuc
Tha Muang 39 km from Nong Pladuc
Tha Rua 26 km from Nong Pladuc
Thanbaya 53 Kilo Camp from Thanbyuzayat
Thanbyuzayat 0 Kilo Camp, Burma. 415 km from Nong Pladuc
Three Pagodas Pass 108.5 km from Thanbyuzayat
Tonchan South 125 km from Nong Pladuc
Wang Lan 69 km from Nong Pladuc
Wang Pho 111 km from Nong Pladuc

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

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