List of Japanese-run Internment Camps During World War II

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 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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Reverse 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.

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