Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Lanai City Jail, Lanai island
Haiku Detention Camp, Maui Island
Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: January 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
February 1943 - June 1944
Rohwer Concentration Camp, Arkansas
June 1944 - November 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
A daughter, Kazuko Elsie, was born to the Kouchis in confinement at Rohwer in October 1944. Several months later, their two-year-old son, Yoshihito Norman, died in the camp.