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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.
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A map (front) of Imperial Japanese-run prisoner-of-war camps within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere known during World War II from 1941 to 1945.
Back 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.
Published by the Medical Research Committee of American Ex-Prisoners of War, Inc., 1980.
Further information: Far East prisoners of war, Prisoner-of-war camp, and List of concentration and internment camps