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Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
December 1941 - February 1942
This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport ship 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. This internee was in a sub-group of First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
March 1942 - May 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
May 1942 - June 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943 - April 1944
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
April 1944
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Businessman, community leader, and poet, Kumaji Furuya's 1964 camp memoir, Haisho Tenten, was translated into English and published by JCCH in 2017 as An Internment Odyssey.
Son Hanzo, a member of the University of Hawaii ROTC, was guarding military installations around Honolulu at the time of his father's arrest; he later served with the U.S. Army's occupation forces in Japan.