Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


Transferred to Mainland: December 1942

Sent aboard the military troopship the Lurline with more than 430 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

January 1943 - June 1944


Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

June 1944 - June 1945


Detroit, Michigan


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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


Shuichi Hayashida's two youngest daughters were born in camp, Bertha Naomi in Jerome and Diane Yoko in Gila River.