Internment Locations

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 - October 1943


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

October 1943 - February 1945


Fort Abraham Lincoln Internment Camp, Bismarck, North Dakota


Other members of the Hilo Hongwanji Mission also were arrested and confined. They included Bishop Zenu Aoki, the reverends Kenryu Hasegawa, Doro Kanda, Jukaku Shirasu and Kogyo Tsunoda, and teacher Masaichi Uemura.