Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Waimea, Kauai Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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. This internee was in a sub-group of Second Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

March 1942 - April 1942


Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma

April 1942 - May 1942


Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

June 1942 - June 1943


Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

June 1943 - June 1944


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1944 - October 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Two of Saichiro Kubota's sons, Hisashi Kubota and Saburo Kubota, served in the U.S. military during World War II. Hisashi volunteered in 1943 and was a sergeant with the 232nd Combat Engineer Company of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Younger brother Saburo trained as a linguist with the Military Intelligence Service.