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 - June 1944


Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

June 1944 - August 1944


Chicago, Illinois


Returned to Hawaii: March 1946

Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf with her husband and their young son.


Following their release from confinement, Asako Kawamura and Ronald Yoshiki Takahata, also from Hawaii, were married in Chicago. Ronald Takahata was the son of Hawaii internee Yoshio Takahata.