Internment Locations
Arrested: March 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship 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
June 1942
Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas
June 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Toraichi Kurakake's son George Hiroshi Kurakake was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion during World War II.
After the war, Toraichi Kurakake returned to work as a Japanese language school principal, and upon his retirement in the 1960s had served at various schools throughout the islands for more than 50 years.