Internment Locations

Arrested: June 1942

Lanai City, Lanai Island


Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration 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 and others 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

October 1942


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.