Internment Locations
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: January 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
February 1943 - June 1944
Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona
June 1944 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Kichitaro Hamada and Hawaii resident Akiko Koizumi were married in Jerome shortly after her arrival there in January 1944. Their son Katsumi was born in Gila River.