Internment Locations
Arrested: July 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among forty-nine men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the fifth transfer group 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
August 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1942
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
March 1944 - May 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
May 1944 - November 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
The Chinens' daughter, Takako, was born in Tule Lake camp. After the war, wife Kiyoko Chinen would host and produce Okinawan-language radio programs on Honolulu stations KAIM and KZOO for almost 40 years. Son Theodore Takashi would become half of a performing duo well known in the islands and abroad as Teddy and Nanci Tanaka.