Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 39 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the fourth transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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. 

Also sent on the same ship were six Issei women internees: Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane. The women were kept apart from the men and had a different internment sequence from them.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

June 1942 - July 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

July 1942 - June 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - October 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Shinroku Kanemori's wife, Fujino Kanemori, also was held under confinement at Kilauea Military Camp. She was transferred to Sand Island Internment Camp on Oahu and paroled in September 1942. 

The Kanemoris' son Edward Michitada Kanemori served during the war as a member of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service.