Lat 3 32' 60S Long 143 37' 60E  Wewak Town is built onto the peninsula of Wewak Point.   Cape Wom is to the west. Wewak Harbor and Mission Point to the east. Prior to the war, there were colonial buildings located here, a dock and other facilities.

Occupied by the Japanese Army on December 18, 1942. Four ships landed unopposed between 8pm and 2am and unloaded about 2,000 troops and supplies onto the beach at Wewak to Wirui

Wewak Pont became the head quarters of the Navy in Wewak, until later withdrawn to Kairiru. Heavily bombed from the air, Japanese had prepared extensive defensive positions including bunkers and caves around the point. Attacked by Australian ground forces in May 1945, they fought until the death from these positions.

American Missions Against Wewak (Town / Airfield)
December 30, 1942 - September 8, 1944

Wewak Airstrip (Wirui, Wewak Central)
Prewar Catholic Mission airstrip, expanded by the Japanese and  used as an airfield

Tachi-6 Japanese Radar
Two 50Kw radar sets, range 200km located at Wewak, likely in the Wirui vicinity. Und the control of the Army's 4th Ait Intel Unit. Operational orders of 248th Sentai showed they scrambled based on radar intel. Reference: Japanese Mono. #127 via Ricahrd Dunn.

Japanese Tunnel System on Wewak Point
The Japanese built tunnels and fortications on Wewak Point into the rising coral rock face of the point. Most of these tunnels are "U" shapped, with two nearby entrances connected by a small connecting tunnel segment. Some of the second entrances are sealed due to landslides since the war, or are otherwise hard to find. These "U" shapped tunnels extend all around the cliff face of the point on the east, north and western sides.  Most are completely empty, aside from fallen rubble or other refuse.

Japanese Bunker
Located at on the north-eastern side of the point, on the present day former Sumari residence is a large concrete bunker located above ground.  It has four entrances with stairs leading downwards into a square shaped room. It is empty, aside from some refuse.

Jack Renwick, RAAF PBY Flight Engineer recalls:
"It was said that the artillery gun that shot down the the aircraft [on November 10, 1944] was a weapon they called 'one shot charley'. One shot Charley would let the first in line go, then turn up his lights and then let fire... as soon as he hit an aircraft he'd go back into the hill/ The gun was in a tunnel in the hill on rails. And because of the fact it was in the tunnel it was probably there at the end of the war. They could'nt destroy that."

Japanese Radio (?) Tunnel
This bunker and tunnel is located near the Bunker on the Sumari residence.  It is a large, concrete tunnel construction, with stair case leading upward.  Filled in with sand from the stairs side, the only entrace is through the tunnel portion. This tunnel is empty.  Locals reported that electrical lights and wiring was present inside it until the early 1970s.

Japanese Navy Hospital
Japanese Navy built a hospital building on Wewak Point. Japanese nurses once staffed the hospital here, but were evacuated, sometime around March of 1944 to the Philippines and back to Japan.

Tetsuo Watanabe writes in Naval Land Unit that Vanished in the Jungle, page 59:
"The navy built a well equipped hospital on the peninsula which was a beautiful place like paradise in our dreams. It was surrounded by coconut trees planted neatly in a line, lemon trees and hibiscuses. There were even nurses in white uniforms until about March 1944."

Hospital Tunnel (?)
One of the larger tunnels is known locally to this day as 'Hospital Tunnel'.

Jack Renwick, recalls post war disposal of the contents of Wewak Point tunnels:
"[After the war] I worked in a clothing factory... [the boss] would go down to a disposals sale and buy the whole lot. When the war was over the goverment was selling contents of all Japanese camps and tunnels. [One of the boss' sons] went to New Guinea. He went to make a bid for the contents of some particular tunnel. This one was used by the Japanese as a hospital tunnel and they had medical supplies in there. He bought thousands of bandages and field dressings and brought them back to Austria [to be resold]."

Pacific Ghosts Wewak Tunnel Exploration

Roy Worcester's Historic Center (Closed) Located in Wewak town during the late 1960's to early 1970's at the site of the present day Ela Motors. Worcester collected Japanese aircraft wreckage and displayed them.  After his death the collection dispersed. A few items are today displayed at the PNG Museum in Port Moresby.

East Sepik Provincial Goverment Office Located on Wewak Point.  A small store nearby has a display of some collected Japanese relics, including (in 2003) a machine gun and several helmets and canteens.  (In 2005) a Jukie Heavy Machine Gun and Mortar.

New Wewak Hotel This hotel is located at the north-west tip of the point. Managed by Shizuka Kawabata, who served in the Japanese Navy in Japan during WWII.  In 1984, he came to New Guinea to manage the hotel.  Japanese visitors ofen stay here during their visit to Wewak.

PNG / Japan Peace Park
Located across the street from the Windjammer Hotel.  This park was built September 16, 1981.  Destroyed by vandals in 2003, it was rebuilt and reopened with a security guard. The grounds are maintained by various church groups monthly. During visits by Japanese tourist, flags are displayed and electricity available at the site. The facility has a Japanese and PNG flag pole, a lily pond and memorial building with plaques in Japanese, English and Tok Pidgin.

The memorial plaque reads: "In Memory of all those who sacrified their lives on land and at sea and around New Guinea during World War II and in dedication to world peace. Construction by the Japanese Goverment in cooperation with the Goverment of Papua New Guinea on September 16, 1981."

A plaque related to construction reads: "For the construction of this monument Japanese ex-service leage for East New Guinea and Japan-Papua New Guinea Goodwill Society have given their cooperation for this rest house. The stage and open air theater and so on. Architect Supervisor Kiyonori Kiutake. Memorial Plate Designer Hiroshi Ogawa, Constructor Hakoneueki Landscape Construction, Ltd." The

Mass Gave Marker
The park is built next to the location of a former Japanese mass grave. Excivated in 1955 and the remains returned to Japan.  A memorial marks the location today.