Internment Locations
Arrested: January 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943
Repatriated to Japan: September 1943
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.
As resident minister of Hilo's Higashi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, Rev. Takeo Akegarasu oversaw the mission's tenth anniversary celebration in 1939. Arrested and incarcerated during the war, he repatriated to Japan with his family but returned to Hilo in 1950. Once again, he took up his assignment as the Buddhist temple's minister, serving until his death in 1955.