List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II
(Redirected from List of Japanese POW camps during World War II)
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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. Template:Expand list Script error: No such module "Multiple image".
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[1]
- 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 (Template:Ill, 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[2]
- Unit 731
- Unit 100
- Unit 516
- Zhongma Fortress
Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
Japanese Internment Camps in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia):[3]
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- Ambon (Ambon Island)
- Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java
- Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)
- Bangkong, Semarang, Central Java
- Template:Interlanguage link multi, Central Java
- Bicycle Camp, Batavia, West Java
- Template:Interlanguage link multi Berastagi, North Sumatra
- Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi, East Java
- Glodok Gaol, Glodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java
- Template:Interlanguage link multi (Glugur), Medan, North Sumatra
- Grogol, Batavia, West Java[4]
- Template:Interlanguage link multi, near Makassar, South Celebes (today Sulawesi)
- Kampoeng Makasar, Meester Cornelis, West Java
- Camp Kareës, Bandung, West Java[5][6]
- Koan School, Batavia (today Jakarta), West Java
- Lampersari, Semarang, Central Java
- Makasoera, Celebes
- Moentilan, Magelang, Central Java
- Template:Interlanguage link multi (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[7]
- Apalon (82 Kilo Camp)[7][8]
- Aungganaung (105 Kilo Camp)[9]
- Ban Kao[7]
- Ban Pong[7]
- Chungkai[7]
- Hellfire Pass[10]
- Hintok[7]
- Kanchanaburi[7]
- Khonkhan (55 Kilo Camp)[11]
- Konkoita[7]
- Konyu[7]
- Mezali (70 Kilo Camp)[12]
- Nakhon Nayok
- Niki Niki[7]
- Nong Pladuk[7]
- Paya Thanzu Taung (108 Kilo Camp)[13]
- Rephaw (30 Kilo Camp)[14]
- Sonkrai (Songkurai)[15]
- Tamarkan[7]
- Tampi[7]
- Tarsao[7]
- Taungzun (60 Kilo Camp)[16]
- Tha Kanun (Takanun)[17][18]
- Thanbaya (53 Kilo Camp)[19][20]
- Thanbyuzayat[7]
- Three Pagodas Pass[21]
- Wang Pho[7]
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.[22] Zedric, Lance Q. Silent Warriors: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines (Pathfinder 1995).
Portuguese (East) Timor
Korea
Hong Kong
- Argyle Street Camp
- Ma Tau Chung Camp
- Ma Tau Wai Camp
- North Point Camp
- Sham Shui Po Camp
- Stanley Internment Camp[23][24]
Guam
Japan
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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
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- ↑ Zedric, Lance Q. Silent No More: The Alamo Scouts in Their Own Words (War Room Press 2013).
- ↑ Antiquities Advisory Board. List of Internment Camps in Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation (1941 – 1945)
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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: