List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II
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 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, Malaya
- 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
- Jesselton camp
- Sandakan camp
China
- Ash Civilian Assembly Center
- Chapei Civilian Assembly Center
- Columbia Country Club Civilian Assembly Center
- Fengtai Prison
- Kiangwang POW Camp
- Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center
- Lushun POW Camp
- Unit 1855
- Unit 1644
- Unit 8604
- Unit 543
- Wusong POW Camp
- Weixian Civil Assembly Center
- Yu Yuen Road Civilian Assembly Center
- Yangtzepoo Civilian Assembly Center
- 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 :- , Rantau Prapat, North Sumatra
- Ambon
- Ambarawa, Central Java
- Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan
- 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
- , Medan, North Sumatra
- Grogol, Batavia, West Java
- , near Makassar, South Celebes
- Kampoeng Makasar, Meester Cornelis, West Java
- Camp Kareës, Bandung, West Java
- Koan School, Batavia, West Java
- Lampersari, Semarang, Central Java
- Makasoera, Celebes
- Moentilan, Magelang, Central Java
- , Medan, North Sumatra
- Pontianak POW camp, Pontianak
- Si Rengo Rengo, Labuhanbatu, North Sumatra
- Tandjong Priok POW camp, Tandjong Priok, Batavia, West Java
- Tebing Tinggi, North Sumatra
- Tjideng, Batavia, West Java
- Tjibaroesa, Buitenzorg, West Java
- Klapanoenggal, Buitenzorg, West Java
- Tjimahi, West Java
- Usapa Besar, Timor
Thailand and Burma (Myanmar)
- Anakwin
- Apalon
- Aungganaung
- Ban Kao
- Ban Pong
- Chungkai
- Hellfire Pass
- Hintok
- Kanchanaburi
- Khonkhan
- Konkoita
- Konyu
- Mezali
- Nakhon Nayok
- Niki Niki
- Nong Pladuk
- Paya Thanzu Taung
- Rephaw
- Sonkrai
- Tamarkan
- Tampi
- Tarsao
- Taungzun
- Tha Kanun
- Thanbaya
- Thanbyuzayat
- Three Pagodas Pass
- Wang Pho
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 Warriors: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines.
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