Internment Locations

Arrested: August 1942


Transferred to Mainland: November 1942

Sent aboard the passenger ship Antigua with more than 100 other Hawaii residents to War Relocation Authority camps on the Mainland.


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

November 1942 - May 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - October 1944


Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

November 1944 - May 1945


Paroled to Brooklyn, New York


Returned to Hawaii: March 1946

Arrived in Honolulu with some 60 other Hawaii internees aboard the military troopship the Mariposa.


Takuzo Matsumura's son Richard Shunichi Matsumura entered the U.S. military at the end of his family's incarceration. He was a member of the army's Military Intelligence Service.