Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees 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


Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

March 1942 - May 1942


Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

May 1942 - June 1942


Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

June 1942 - August 1942


Sent Back to Hawaii: August 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

August 1942 - March 1943


Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island


Paroled: August 1944


Takeo Akizaki succeeded as bishop of the Inari Shrine following the death in 1951 of his father and founder of the shrine, Yoshio Akizaki. Born in Honolulu, Takeo studied Shinto in Japan.