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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)
A map (front) 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.
Back 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

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Camps in Malaya and the Straits Settlements (Singapore)

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Camps in Formosa (Taiwan)

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Camps in British Borneo (Brunei and East Malaysia)

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Camps in China

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Camps in Manchuria

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Camps in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

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Japanese Internment Camps in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia):[3]

Camps in Thailand and Burma (Myanmar)

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Camps in New Guinea

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Camps in Portuguese (East) Timor

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Camps in Korea

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Camps in Hong Kong

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Camps in Japan

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Malay POW camps, retrieved 26 June 2021
  2. ^ "World War II POWs remember efforts to strike against captors". The Times-Picayune. Associated Press. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Japanese Internment Camps".
  4. ^ "Grogol". Japanse Burgerkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Camp Kareës". Mijnverhaal-over-nedindie. 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Civilian camps". Indische Kamp Archieven. East Indies Camp Archives. 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Birma Spoorweg". Japanse Krijgsgevangenkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Apalon". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Aungganaung". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Section 2b". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Khonkhan". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  12. ^ "Mezali". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  13. ^ "Paya Thanzu Taung". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  14. ^ "Rephaw". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Songkurai". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  16. ^ "Taungzun". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  17. ^ "Tha Kannun". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  18. ^ "Takanun". Japanse Krijgsgevangenkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  19. ^ "Thanbaya". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  20. ^ "Tanbaya". Japanse Krijgsgevangenkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  21. ^ "Section 4a". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  22. ^ Zedric, Lance Q. Silent No More: The Alamo Scouts in Their Own Words (War Room Press 2013).
  23. ^ Antiquities Advisory Board. List of Internment Camps in Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation (1941 – 1945)
  24. ^ "POW Research". Hong Kong War Diary. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  25. ^ Breu, Mary (2009). Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW. Portland: Graphic Arts Books. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-88240-852-1.
  26. ^ url=http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/sendai/sendai_09_sakata/sen_09b_sakata_aussie_dutch.html
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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:

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