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Japanese Civilian Internment Camps WWII

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This is an umbrella project for Japanese Civilian Internment Camps WWII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese-run_internment_camps...

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
  • Camp Manganese, Guindulman, Bohol
  • Camp Malolos, Bulcan
  • Camps in Malaya and Singapore[edit]
  • Changi Prison
  • Salarang Barracks
  • River Valley Camp
  • Blakang Mati
  • Anderson School, Ipoh, Perak State, Malaya
  • Outram Road Prison
  • Sime Road

Camps in Formosa (modern Taiwan)

  • Kinkaseki#1 Jinguashi
  • 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)

Camps in North Borneo

  • Jesselton
  • Sandakan

Camps in Sarawak

  • Batu Lintang, Kuching

Camps in China

Camps in Manchuria

  • Hoten Camp

Camps in Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia)

  • Pontianak POW camp, Pontianak (Dutch Borneo) (modern Kalimantan)
  • Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo) (modern Kalimantan)
  • Makasura (Celebes)
  • Tandjong Priok POW camp, Tandjong Priok (Java)
  • Koan School, Batavia (modern Jakarta) (Java)
  • Glodok Gaol, Golodok, a suburb of Batavia (modern Jakarta) (Java)
  • Bicycle Camp, Batavia (modern Jakarta) (Java)
  • Bandung (Java)
  • Tjideng
  • Usapa Besar (Timor)
  • Ambarawa (Java)
  • Bangkong (Java)
  • Lampersari (Java)
  • Ambon (Ambon Island)
  • Banyubiru (Java)
  • Si Rengo Rengo (Sumatra)
  • Gloegoer (Sumatra)
  • Aik Pamienke (Sumatra)

Camps in Thailand and Burma

  • Niki Niki
  • Kanchanaburi
  • Sonkrai

Camps in New Guinea

  • Rabaul

Camps in Korea

  • Inchon
  • Kyungsung
  • Hamhung

Camps in Hong Kong

  • Argyle Street Camp
  • Ma Tau Chong 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
  • 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 Corygara
  • 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
  • Nooetzu (or Nooetsu) 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
  • Rangoon
  • Roku Roshi
  • Sakai Prison
  • 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