Fujimoto, Shigeki - Hawai‘i Internee Database

Internment Locations

Arrested: November 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island

Tripler Army Hospital, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Hospitalized during incarceration

Shigeki Fujimoto was the son of prominent Hilo businessman Isaku Fujimoto, the director of the family's import-export business, Fujimoto Trading Company, and the founder along with Isojiro Kitagawa of Hilo's Nichibei Sake Brewery. Shigeki worked with his uncle, Eiji Fujimoto, to run the family business.

INTERNEE DETAILS

Internee Name:
Shigeki Fujimoto

Name In Japanese:
藤本茂樹

Date of Birth:
1913

Generation:
Nisei

Residence:
Hilo, Hawaii

EMPLOYMENT

Occupation:
President, Fujimoto Trading Co.

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