Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant 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
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.