Internment Locations

Arrested: May 1942


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 - May 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - October 1945


Masaru Ideta was sent to the Mainland for internment with his daughter, Yukiko Ideta. While in Jerome, Yukiko married Hawaii internee Koichi Watanabe. Their daughter, June Junko Watanabe, was born in Heart Mountain.