Internment Locations
Arrested: June 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of forty-nine men (mostly Issei) were sent in the fifth transfer group for internment in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
August 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - September 1943
Repatriated to Japan: September 1943
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.
Rev. Eimu Miake first arrived in the islands in 1930 and served as a minister at the Honpa Hongwanji Mission on Fort Street in Honolulu. He repatriated to Japan during the war, but returned in 1950 to serve once again at the Honpa Hongwanji temple.