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 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 (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.

Camps in the Philippines

Camps in Malaya and 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 and Burma

Camps in New Guinea

Camps in Korea

Camps in Hong Kong

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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. ↑ "POW Research". Hong Kong War Diary. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2007-11-14.

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