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, MalayaMalay POW camps, retrieved 26 June 2021 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 Pokong Civilian Assembly Center (Honan Island, Canton) 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 Apalon 82 Kilo Campfrom 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 56 km 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 98 km 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 No More: The Alamo Scouts in Their Own Words (War Room Press 2013). 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 CampAntiquities Advisory Board. List of Internment Camps in Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation (1941 – 1945)

Guam Manenggon

Japan

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

External links Fairly comprehensive list Lat/Long locations (Google Earth) of former Japanese POW camps in Japan

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