Internment Locations
Arrested: February 1942
Honolulu, Oahu Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship for internment 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 or transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
June 1942
Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas
June 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 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.
Chinyei Kinjo's father, Chinzen Kinjo, was among the first group of 27 contract laborers from Okinawa who arrived in January 1900 to work on the sugar plantations of Hawaii. Chinyei, born in Okinawa some two weeks after his father's immigration, came to the islands as a young man and also worked in the cane fields before attending Iolani School. In 1926, he became the publisher and editor of the weekly Yoen Jiho.