List of Japanese-run internment 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.

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.

Philippines

Malaya and the Straits Settlements (Singapore)

Formosa (Taiwan)

British Borneo (Brunei and East Malaysia)

China

Manchukuo (Manchuria)

Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

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

Thailand and Burma (Myanmar)

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

Guam

Japan

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