Internment Locations
Arrested: October 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: March 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah
March 1943 - September 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
September 1943 - February 1946
Returned to Hawaii: March 1946
Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf.
In 1943, as Masaru Miyamoto was as sent to the Mainland for internment, his younger brother Hitoshi Alton Miyamoto volunteered as a Japanese language translator for the U.S. Army. He served during the war with the Military Intelligence Service.
While in Tule Lake, Masaru married Kiyoka Kawai of Washington.