Internment Locations

Arrested: June 1942


Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island

July 1942 - September 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

September 1942 - October 1942


A group of twenty-three Issei men were sent aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.

Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them. 


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

October 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - September 1944


Paroled to Denver, Colorado: September 1944


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.