This term generally refers to the Japanese camps in Asia during WW II and to the camps in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies in particular. The word “Jap” is a pejorative abbreviated form of “Japanese.” The term Jappenkamp is also contested by some victims and their descendants, who feel that the term focuses more on the Japanese perpetrators rather than on the cruelties that happened in the camps. For this reason “Japanese concentration camps” has been suggested as a possible alternative.