# 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 (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.

## Camps in the 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

## Camps in 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

## Camps in 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)

## Camps in British Borneo (Brunei and East Malaysia)

* Batu Lintang camp (Batu Lintang, Kuching)
* Jesselton camp (Kota Kinabalu)
* Sandakan camp (Sandakan)

## Camps in 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
* Unit 1855 (Beijing)
* Unit 1644 (Nanjing)
* Unit 8604 (Guangzhou)
* Unit 543 (Hailar District)
* Wusong POW Camp (Wusong, Shanghai)
* Weixian Civil Assembly Center (Wei County [zh], near Weifang)
* Yu Yuen Road Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
* Yangtzepoo Civilian Assembly Center (Shanghai)
* Zikawei Camp

## Camps in Manchuria

* Hoten Camp
* Harbin Camp
* Mukden POW Camp
* Unit 731
* Unit 100
* Unit 516
* Zhongma Fortress

## Camps in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

Japanese Internment Camps in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia):
* Aek Pamienke [nl] (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) [nl], Central Java
* Bicycle Camp, Batavia, West Java
* Brastagi (internment camp) [nl] Berastagi, North Sumatra
* Fort van den Bosch, Ngawi, East Java
* Glodok Gaol, Glodok, a suburb of Batavia, West Java
* Gloegoer [id] (Glugur), Medan, North Sumatra
* Grogol, Batavia, West Java
* Kampili camp [nl], 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
* Poeloe Brayan [nl; id] (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)

* Anakwin
* Apalon (82 Kilo Camp)
* Aungganaung (105 Kilo Camp)
* Ban Kao
* Ban Pong
* Chungkai
* Hellfire Pass
* Hintok
* Kanchanaburi
* Khonkhan (55 Kilo Camp)
* Konkoita
* Konyu
* Mezali (70 Kilo Camp)
* Nakhon Nayok
* Niki Niki
* Nong Pladuk
* Paya Thanzu Taung (108 Kilo Camp)
* Rephaw (30 Kilo Camp)
* Sonkrai (Songkurai)
* Tamarkan
* Tampi
* Tarsao
* Taungzun (60 Kilo Camp)
* Tha Kanun (Takanun)
* Thanbaya (53 Kilo Camp)
* Thanbyuzayat
* Three Pagodas Pass
* Wang Pho

## Camps in 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 (Pathfinder 1995).

## Camps in Portuguese (East) Timor

* Baucau
* Dili

## Camps in Korea

* Inchon
* Seoul (Keijō)
* Hamhung

## Camps in Hong Kong

* Argyle Street Camp
* Ma Tau Chung Camp
* Ma Tau Wai Camp
* North Point Camp
* Sham Shui Po Camp
* Stanley Internment Camp

## Camps in the United States

* Manenggon

## Camps in Japan

* 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
* Oyeama
* Park Central Camp
* Park Central Stadium
* Roku Roshi
* Sakai Prison
* Sakata Branch Camp, Yamagata (Sendai 9-B)
* 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