Internment Locations

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 - September 1943


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

September 1943 - February 1946


Returned to Hawaii: March 1946

Arrived in Honolulu with some 60 other Hawaii internees aboard the military troopship the Mariposa.


Minoru Kitamura married Fumiye Mishima of Fresno, California, while they were in Tule Lake.