122687: Japanese Prisoner of War Camps

For administrative purposes, the army authorities divided the army-run prisoner-of-war camps in Japan into seven camp groups. The official name of each camp group carried the name of the prefecture or the prefectural capital city at which the main camp – or the headquarter camp – of the camp group was located. The names of the seven camp groups are as follows: (1) Hakodate, (2) Sendai, (3) Tokyo, (4) Nagoya, (5) Osaka, (6) Hiroshima, and (7) Fukuoka. Each camp group is commonly made up of a main camp and branch camps.