Internment Locations
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: January 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
February 1943 - September 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
September 1943 - March 1946
Returned to Hawaii: March 1946
Arrived in Honolulu with some 60 other Hawaii internees aboard the military troopship the Mariposa.
While in Tule Lake, Seiji Ayano married Fumiyo Kishishita of Acampo, California. After the war, Seiji and Fumiyo took Kishishita as their last name.