Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 172 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent aboard the military transport ship USS U.S. Grant 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 directly from Camp Livingston 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
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
March 1942 - May 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
May 1942 - June 1942
Repatriated to Japan: June 1942
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were nine internees from Hawaii.
In July 1942, Motoichi Matsuda's Honolulu residence, considered by the local press to be "one of the largest Japanese homes in the islands," was sold at public auction for $35,000. The sale included the two-story house, a car, furniture, and other personal property.