Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 167 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. Together, the men were sent from camp to camp.
In June 1943, this transfer group was split into two, with this group sent from Camp Livingston to Fort Missoula before being transferred to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members. Others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
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 - April 1944
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
April 1944 - June 1944
Paroled to Lakewood, Ohio
June 1944 - July 1945
Returned to Hawaii: July 1945
In the summer of 1945, the U.S. Army allowed ten of Hawaii's 160 internees with sons serving in the military to return to the islands.
As an assistant to the prominent Honolulu pastor Takie Okumura, Kametaro Maeda aided in the establishment of the Makiki Christian Church at the turn of the 20th century and preached to early Japanese immigrants of the Ewa Sugar Plantation on Oahu Island in the decades before the war.
While Maeda remained under incarceration on the mainland, son Wallace Michio Maeda was serving in the U.S. military as a sergeant with the 100th Infantry Battalion. Other internees with soldier sons who returned in the summer of 1945 were Ryosei Aka, Ryozo Izutsu, Kichitaro Kawauchi, Teiichiro Maehara, Tamehachi Makihira, Nobuichi Miura, Kyoichi Miyata, Hanzo Shimoda, and Nekketsu Takei.