List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II

Main article: Prisoner-of-war camp

This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment 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 (obverse) 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.
Reverse 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.

Contents

Camps in the Philippines

Camps in Malaya/Singapore

Camps in Formosa (modern Taiwan)

Camps in North Borneo

Camps in Sarawak

Camps in China

Camps in Manchuria

Camps in Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia)

Camps in Thailand/Burma

Camps in New Guinea

Camps in Korea

Camps in Hong Kong

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Camps in Japan

See also

References

  1. ^ "POW Research". Hong Kong War Diary. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. http://web.archive.org/web/20071031133834/http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/powresearch.html. Retrieved 2007-11-14. 

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