List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II
(Redirected from List of POW camps in Japan)
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.
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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.
Published by the Medical Research Committee of American Ex-Prisoners of War, Inc., 1980.
Camps in the Philippines
[edit]- 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
Camps in Malaya and the Straits Settlements (Singapore)
[edit]- 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
Camps in Formosa (Taiwan)
[edit]- 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)
Camps in British Borneo (Brunei and East Malaysia)
[edit]- Batu Lintang camp (Batu Lintang, Kuching)
- Jesselton camp (Kota Kinabalu)
- Sandakan camp (Sandakan)
Camps in China
[edit]- 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 (Wei County, near Weifang)
- Yu Yuen Road Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Yangtzepoo Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
- Zikawei Camp
Camps in Manchuria
[edit]- Hoten Camp
- Harbin Camp
- Mukden POW Camp[2]
- Unit 731
- Unit 100
- Unit 516
- Zhongma Fortress
Camps in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
[edit]Japanese Internment Camps in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia):[3]
- Aek Pamienke (3 camps), Rantau Prapat, North Sumatra
- Ambon (Ambon Island)
- Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java
- Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)
- Bangkong, Semarang, Central Java
- Banjoebiroe (Semarang), Central Java
- Bicycle Camp, Batavia, West Java
- Brastagi (internment camp) Berastagi, North Sumatra
- Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi, East Java
- Glodok Gaol, Glodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java
- Gloegoer (Glugur), Medan, North Sumatra
- Grogol, Batavia, West Java[4]
- Kampili camp, 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
- Poeloe Brayan (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
Camps in Thailand and Burma (Myanmar)
[edit]- 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]
Camps in New Guinea
[edit]- 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).
Camps in Portuguese (East) Timor
[edit]Camps in Korea
[edit]Camps in Hong Kong
[edit]- Argyle Street Camp
- Ma Tau Chung Camp
- Ma Tau Wai Camp
- North Point Camp
- Sham Shui Po Camp
- Stanley Internment Camp[23][24]
Camps in the United States
[edit]Camps in Japan
[edit] | This section needs additional citations for verification. (May 2014) |
- Achi Yamakita
- Aioshi
- Akasaka
- Akenobe #6B
- Akita
- Amagasaki Subcamp
- Aokuma (or Okuma) (Fukuoka #22)
- Aomori (Ōmori, Tokyo Base Camp #1)
- Arao
- Asahigawa
- Ashio
- Ashikago
- Atami
- Beppu
- Bibai-Machi Branch Camp #3
- Camp #11 (Fukuoka #11) (Later renamed #8)
- Camp #23
- Chiba
- Chugenji (or Chuzenji)
- Franciscan Monastery
- Fukuoka #17
- Fuji
- Funatsu
- Furashi
- Furumaki
- Fuse
- Futase (Fukuoka #10, later renamed #7)
- Futatsui City
- Gifu - Nagara Hotel
- Hakodate #2 (Utashinia or Akabira)
- Hakodate #3 (Utashin1a)
- Hakodate Divisional Camp
- Hakodate Main Camp
- Hakone
- Hanawa Sendai #6
- Harina (or Harima)
- Hayashi Village
- Higashi-Misone (Subcamp #10)
- Himeji
- Hiraoka (Subcamp #3)
- Hirohata Divisional Camp
- Hitachi (Ibaraki-Ken Camp #D12)
- Hitachi Motoyama
- Honshu, (Naniwa Camp)
- Ichioka (or Itchioka) Stadium Hospital
- Iizuka (Probably #7)
- Ikuno (Osaka #4B)
- Imoshima Island (Subcamp #2)
- Kagawa Christian Fellowship Home
- Kamioka
- Kamiso Subcamp #1
- Kamitan (or Kamita) Kozan (Sendai #11)
- Kanagawa Kenko
- Kanagawa Tokyo 2nd Div.
- Kanazawa
- Kanose
- Karuizawa
- Kashii (or Kashu) Camp #1 (Fukuoka #1)
- Kawasaki #1
- Kawasaki Camp - Kobe
- Kawasaki Dispatch Camp #5
- Kawasaki Subcamp #2 ("Mitsui Madhouse")
- Kempei Tai
- Kita Kurihara
- Kobe
- Kobe (Camp #31)
- Kobe POW Hospital
- Kōchi
- Kosaka (Sendai Camp #8)
- Koshian Hotel
- Koyagi Shima (Fukuoka #2)
- Kumamoto (First location of Fukuoka #1)
- Kure
- Kurume
- Kyota - branches at Hakata
- Maibara
- Maisure
- Minato-ku
- Mito
- Mitsu Branch Camp #5
- Mitsuishi
- Mitsushima (or Matsushima) Camp #2D
- Miyata (Fukuoka #9B)
- Mizumaki
- Mizonkuchi
- Moji #4
- Moji Hospital
- Morioka
- Motoyama Subcamp #8
- Mukaishima Island Subcamp #1 (Hiroshima Sub-Camp #4)
- Murakami
- Muroran (Kamiso Machi Camp #73)
- Myoshi
- Nakama #21 (Fukuoka #21) (Also spelled Nacama)
- Nagasaki
- Nagasaki #14
- Nagasaki #2 (Same as #139)
- Nagasaki #4
- Nagoya Main Camp
- Nagoya Subcamp #10
- Nakano
- Narashino Airport
- Narumi
- Niigata (Subcamp #5)
- Niihama Branch Camp #2
- Nogeyama Park
- Naoetsu Prison Camp (Niigata Ken)
- Notogawa #9B
- Odate
- Oeyama (or Oyama)
- Ōfuna Camp
- Ohama Subcamp #9
- Ohashi
- Old City Hall
- Omine Subcamp #6
- Ōmori Main Camp
- Ōmuta Camp #17 Fukuoka 17
- Onada Branch Camp #8
- Onada Branch Camp #9
- Osaka #1 Headquarters Camp (Chikko)
- Osaka Central Market
- Otaru[25]
- Oyeama
- Park Central Camp
- Park Central Stadium
- Roku Roshi
- Sakai Prison
- Sakata Branch Camp, Yamagata (Sendai 9-B)[26]
- Sakurajima
- Sakurajima Ichioka School
- Sapporo Penitentiary
- Sasebo (Fukuoka #18)
- Sekiguchi at Koishikawaku
- Sendai
- Shibaura
- Shimodate
- Shimomago Hitachi
- Shimonseki
- Shinagawa Main Camp
- Shinagawa POW Hospital
- Shingu
- Shinjuku Camp #1
- Shizuoka
- Subcamp #12 (Fukuoka #12)
- Sumidagawa
- Sumiyoshi-ku
- Suzuki Aio No Moto Factory
- Suzurandai
- Takadanobaba
- Tamano Branch Camp #3
- Tanagawa
- Tan Tui (or Tan tooey)
- Teniya (or Temiya) Park Stadium
- Tobata (Fukuoka #3)
- Tomakomai
- Toyama
- Toyoka (or Toyooka)
- Tsumori (Osaka Subcamp #13B)
- Tsuruga Divisional Camp #5B
- Tsurumi Subcamp #5
- Ube Subcamp #7
- Umeda Bonshu (Osaka Warehouse)
- Uraga
- Utsonomiya
- Uywake (or Iwake or Yuwake)
- Wakasen
- Wakayama
- Wakinohama (Osaka #18-B)
- Yamashita Camp #1
- Yodogawa
- Yokkaichi
- Yokohama #5
- Yonago
- Yura
- Zentsuji Headquarters Camp
- Zentsuji Subcamp #3
See also
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Malay POW camps, retrieved 26 June 2021
- ^ "World War II POWs remember efforts to strike against captors". The Times-Picayune. Associated Press. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ "Japanese Internment Camps".
- ^ "Grogol". Japanse Burgerkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ "Camp Kareës". Mijnverhaal-over-nedindie. 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ "Civilian camps". Indische Kamp Archieven. East Indies Camp Archives. 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Apalon". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Aungganaung". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Section 2b". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Khonkhan". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Mezali". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Paya Thanzu Taung". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ "Rephaw". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Songkurai". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Taungzun". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Tha Kannun". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Takanun". Japanse Krijgsgevangenkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Thanbaya". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Tanbaya". Japanse Krijgsgevangenkampen (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Section 4a". Far East POW Family. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ 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)
- ^ "POW Research". Hong Kong War Diary. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
- ^ 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.
- ^ url=http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/sendai/sendai_09_sakata/sen_09b_sakata_aussie_dutch.html
External links
[edit]- 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: