Internment Locations
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943
Died: August 1945
Chiyomatsu Hamamura was instrumental in the development of a Japanese language school in Anahola before the war. After Pearl Harbor, two of his sons also were incarcerated: Robert Yutaka, the Anahola postmaster, was imprisoned in the Wailua County Jail for three months in spring 1942; Edward Hiroshi, a University of Southern California student when the war broke out, was sent to the Granada Relocation Camp in Colorado.