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.