Internment Locations
Arrested: August 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration 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 and others transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
October 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
October 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - August 1943
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
August 1943 - September 1943
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.
Konosuke Iwakami's wife, Ryuko, died some four months before his arrest and internment. It is believed that Ichiyo Oyama, the wife of Hawaii internee Shuhei Oyama, acted as the nurse and chaperone for the Iwakami children, accompanying them to the mainland, where they met their father in Crystal City before repatriating to Japan. Ichiyo Oyama repatriated with the Iwakami family. Shuhei Oyama repatriated several months later.