Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
March 1942 - May 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
May 1942 - June 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
Repatriated to Japan: September 1943
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.
During the war, the federal government seized Kotohira Jinsha's land and shrine over suspicions about the organization's ties to Japan. With Rev. Misao Isobe's internment and the shrine's seizure, all religious services ceased. When in 1948 the government announced it's intention to put up for public sale the seized land, Kotohira members sued both the state and federal governments for the return of the property and shrine. A federal judge ruled in the organization's favor, and in October 1950, Kotohira Jinsha held an autumn festival, its first religious celebration in nearly nine years.