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. Template:Expand list Template:Multiple image

Philippines

Malaya and the Straits Settlements (Singapore)

Formosa (Taiwan)

British Borneo (Brunei and East Malaysia)

China

Manchukuo (Manchuria)

Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

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Thailand and Burma (Myanmar)

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New Guinea

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Portuguese (East) Timor

Korea

Hong Kong

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Guam

Japan

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See also

References

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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:

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