Group Media & Photos
Kitchen workers' softball club, "Waikiki", at Topaz Concentration Camp, ca. 1943. Bottom Row (L-R): Kozen Nakama, Mijo, Shiroma [Mainlander], Hideo Kaneshiro, Yoshitsune Gushiken, Koichi Oshiro, Shigeru Kaneshiro, Seijun Tamashiro. Top Row: Seikichi Takushi, Soko Yaka, Unknown, Tamanaha [Mainlander], Juchin Arakaki, Higa, Unknown. JCCH/Hideo Kaneshiro Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: August 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
September 1942 - March 1943
Transferred to Mainland: March 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah
March 1943 - September 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
September 1943 - February 1946
Expatriated to Japan
Yoshitsune Gushiken and his brother, Yoshio, were born in the plantation community of Waipahu on Oahu Island. They both renounced their American citizenship and expatriated to Japan.