Internment Locations

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 - November 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


Takumi Izuno would obtain a Ph.D. in plant genetics from the University of Minnesota and go on to become a renown researcher into ways of increasing crop production, dedicating most of his life to work in the developing world.