Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: December 1942
Sent aboard the military troopship the Lurline with more than 430 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
January 1943 - June 1944
Amache (Granada) Concentration Camp, Colorado
June 1944 - October 1944
A Nisei born on Maui Island, Frank Arakawa was a veteran of the U.S. Army in World War I. A second lieutenant, he served with the Headquarters Company of the Hawaiian Regiment. Other WWI veterans who were interned include Sanji Abe, Frank Takeshi Ishii, Sukeichi Koide, Shigeru Ernest Matsusaka, Ichitaro Ozaki, and Ichiro Sato.
Arakawa's son David Masaru Arakawa served during World War II as a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion.