Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant 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

March 1942


Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

March 1942 - May 1942


Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

May 1942 - June 1942


Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


Teikichi Kojima arrived in Hawaii from his native Tokyo in 1916 as a secretary for the Japanese Consulate-General. He received a master's degree from Northwestern University and, in 1922, served as a Japanese delegate to the Washington Naval Conference. Upon his return to Honolulu, he opened Kojima Book Store, which he maintained after the war and until his death in 1958.