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, Shandong, 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):
 * (3 camps), Rantau Prapat, North Sumatra
 * Ambon (Ambon Island)
 * Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java
 * Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo)
 * 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
 * (Glugur), Medan, North Sumatra
 * Grogol, Batavia, West Java
 * , 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
 * (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 Cibarusah, Bekasi), West Java
 * Tjimahi (now Cimahi, 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 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