Internment Locations

Transferred to Mainland: March 1943

Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.


Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah

March 1943 - September 1943


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

September 1943 - November 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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


Fuku Hidaka's son, Eiji Hidaka, was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion. In November 1943, he was killed in action in Italy.