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 - May 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - November 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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


Roy Yoshinao Kokuzo would become a Buddhist minister, the Rev. Ryosho Kokuzo, serving in Long Beach, California and at the Waipahu Soto Mission on Oahu Island.