List of Japanese run internment camps during World War II

Updated on Jan 24, 2024

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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.

Camps in the 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, Bulcan

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 (modern Taiwan)

Kinkaseki#1 Jinguashi

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)

Camps in North Borneo

Jesselton

Sandakan

Camps in Sarawak

Batu Lintang, Kuching

Camps in China

Haiphong Road

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

Mukden POW Camp

Woosung POW Camp (Shanghai)

Weihsien Civil Assembly Center (Weihsien)

Yu Yuen Road Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)

Yangtzepoo Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)

Zikawei Camp

Camps in Manchuria

Hoten Camp

Camps in Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia)

Ambon (Ambon Island)

Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java

Bangkong, Java

Banyubiru (Semarang), Central Java

Camp Kareës, Bandung, West Java

Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi Regency, East Java

Koan School, Batavia (modern Jakarta), West Java

Glodok Gaol, Golodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java

Bicycle Camp, Batavia, West Java

Tjideng, Batavia, West Java

Lampersari, Java

Muntilan, Central Java

Tandjong Priok POW camp, Tandjong Priok, Java

Tjimahi (now Cimahi, 6 camps), Java

Banyubiru, Java

Pontianak POW camp, Pontianak (Dutch Borneo) (modern Kalimantan)

Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)

Kampili camp, near Makassar, South Celebes (modern Sulawesi)

Makasura, Celebes

Aek Pamienke (3 camps), North Sumatra

Brastagi (Berastagi), North Sumatra

Gloegoer (Glugur), Sumatra

Poeloe Brayan (5 camps), North Sumatra

Si Rengo Rengo (Siringo-ringo), Sumatra

Tebing Tinggi, Sumatra

Usapa Besar, Timor

Camps in Thailand and Burma

Niki Niki

Kanchanaburi

Sonkrai

Camps in New Guinea

Rabaul

Camps in Korea

Inchon

Kyungsung

Hamhung

Camps in Hong Kong

Argyle Street Camp

Ma Tau Chong Camp

Ma Tau Wai Camp

North Point Camp

Sham Shui Po Camp

Stanley Internment Camp

Camps in Japan

Achi Yamakita

Aioshi

Akasaka

Akenobe #6B

Akita

Amagasaki Subcamp

Aokuma (or Okuma) (Fukuoka #22)

Aomori (Ōmori, Tokyo Base Camp #1)

Arao

Asahigawa

Ashio

Ashikago

Atami

Beppu

Bibai-Machi Branch Camp #3

Camp #11 (Fukuoka #11) (Later renamed #8)

Camp #23

Chiba

Chugenji (or Chuzenji)

Franciscan Monastery

Fukuoka #17

Fuji

Funatsu

Furashi

Furumaki

Fuse

Futase (Fukuoka #10, later renamed #7)

Futatsui City

Gifu - Nagara Hotel

Hakodate #2 (Utashinia or Akabira)

Hakodate #3 (Utashin1a)

Hakodate Divisional Camp

Hakodate Main Camp

Hakone

Hanawa Sendai #6

Harina (or Harima)

Hayashi Village

Higashi-Misone (Subcamp #10)

Himeji

Hiraoka (Subcamp #3)

Hirohata Divisional Camp

Hitachi (Ibaraki-Ken Camp #D12)

Hitachi Motoyama

Ichioka (or Itchioka) Stadium Hospital

Iizuka (Probably #7)

Ikuno (Osaka #4B)

Imoshima Island (Subcamp #2)

Kagawa Christian Fellowship Home

Kamioka

Kamiso Subcamp #1

Kamitan (or Kamita) Kozan (Sendai #11)

Kanagawa Kenko

Kanagawa Tokyo 2nd Div.

Kanazawa

Kanose

Karuizawa

Kashii (or Kashu) Camp #1 (Fukuoka #1)

Kawasaki #1

Kawasaki Camp - Kobe

Kawasaki Dispatch Camp #5

Kawasaki Subcamp #2 ("Mitsui Madhouse")

Kempei Tai

Kita Corygara

Kobe

Kobe (Camp #31)

Kobe POW Hospital

Kōchi

Kosaka (Sendai Camp #8)

Koshian Hotel

Koyagi Shima (Fukuoka #2)

Kumamoto (First location of Fukuoka #1)

Kure

Kurume

Kyota - branches at Hakata

Maibara

Maisure

Minato-ku

Mito

Mitsu Branch Camp #5

Mitsuishi

Mitsushima (or Matsushima) Camp #2D

Miyata (Fukuoka #9B)

Mizumaki

Mizonkuchi

Moji #4

Moji Hospital

Morioka

Motoyama Subcamp #8

Mukaishima Island Subcamp #1 (Hiroshima Sub-Camp #4)

Murakami

Muroran (Kamiso Machi Camp #73)

Myoshi

Nakama #21 (Fukuoka #21) (Also spelled Nacama)

Nagasaki

Nagasaki #14

Nagasaki #2 (Same as #139)

Nagasaki #4

Nagoya Main Camp

Nagoya Subcamp #10

Nakano

Narashino Airport

Narumi

Niigata (Subcamp #5)

Niihama Branch Camp #2

Nogeyama Park

Naoetsu Prison Camp (Niigata Ken)

Notogawa #9B

Odate

Oeyama (or Oyama)

Ōfuna Camp

Ohama Subcamp #9

Ohashi

Old City Hall

Omine Subcamp #6

Ōmori Main Camp

Ōmuta Camp #17 Fukuoka 17

Onada Branch Camp #8

Onada Branch Camp #9

Osaka #1 Headquarters Camp (Chikko)

Osaka Central Market

Otaru

Oyeama

Park Central Camp

Park Central Stadium

Rangoon

Roku Roshi

Sakai Prison

Sakurajima

Sakurajima Ichioka School

Sapporo Penitentiary

Sasebo (Fukuoka #18)

Sekiguchi at Koishikawaku

Sendai

Shibaura

Shimodate

Shimomago Hitachi

Shimonseki

Shinagawa Main Camp

Shinagawa POW Hospital

Shingu

Shinjuku Camp #1

Shizuoka

Subcamp #12 (Fukuoka #12)

Sumidagawa

Sumiyoshi-ku

Suzuki Aio No Moto Factory

Suzurandai

Takadanobaba

Tamano Branch Camp #3

Tanagawa

Tan Tui (or Tan tooey)

Teniya (or Temiya) Park Stadium

Tobata (Fukuoka #3)

Tomakomai

Toyama

Toyoka (or Toyooka)

Tsumori (Osaka Subcamp #13B)

Tsuruga Divisional Camp #5B

Tsurumi Subcamp #5

Ube Subcamp #7

Umeda Bonshu (Osaka Warehouse)

Uraga

Utsonomiya

Uywake (or Iwake or Yuwake)

Wakasen

Wakayama

Wakinohama (Osaka #18-B)

Yamashita Camp #1

Yodogawa

Yokkaichi

Yokohama #5

Yonago

Yura

Zentsuji Headquarters Camp

Zentsuji Subcamp #3

References

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