Internment Locations
Wailua County Jail, Kauai Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Fourth Transfer Group: June 1942
This internee was one of six women sent to the Mainland aboard the fourth transfer ship along with a larger group of mostly Issei men. The women were kept apart from the men and had a different internment sequence from them.
Sharp Park Detention Station, California
June 1942 - August 1942
Seagoville Internment Camp, Texas
July 1942 - April 1943
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
April 1943 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Kiku Horibe was one of only eight Hawaii women who were arrested and sent to the Mainland for internment. They were unlike the women who entered Mainland internment as a way to reunify their families, for these women had been arrested and incarcerated.
In addition to Horibe, five other women were sent in the Fourth Transfer Group; they were Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane. Two more women, Kanzen Ito and Ishiko Mori, were sent with the Seventh Transfer Group.
Moreover, among this group of eight women, four had husbands who also were arrested and interned; they were Ryosaku Kawasaki (Miyuki), Shigemaru Miyao (Yuki), Motokazu Mori (Ishiko), and Seigi Yamane (Tsuta).