Internment Locations
Arrested: November 1942
Haiku Detention Camp, Maui Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: March 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah
March 1943 - November 1944
In March 1943, as Yoshiyuki Kawakami was being sent into internment on the Mainland, brother Tetsuro Kawakami was volunteering for a newly created segregated U.S. Army unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Tetsuro Kawakami would be killed in Italy in July 1944 and posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.