Internment Locations
Arrested: April 1942
U.S. Immigration Station, Honolulu, Oahu Island
April 1942 - May 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
May 1942 - March 1943
Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island
March 1943 - September 1943
Paroled: September 1943
Released from Parole: October 1944
Born on Kauai Island, Masako Fujimura left for Japan with her parents when she was six years old. She lived in Yamaguchi Prefecture for the next 20 years, before returning to Hawaii in the spring of 1941. In Honolulu, Fujimura worked as a maid for the family of a U.S. military intelligence officer until her arrest in April 1942.
Besides Masako Fujimura, seven other Japanese women from Hawaii are known to have been incarcerated at Honouliuli. They were Irene Umeno Harada, Helen Shizuko Nakagawa, Haruko Takahashi, Yasue Takahashi, Ryuto Tsuda, and sisters Ruby Chiyo Harrison and Rose Mitsuko Tsukayama.