Internment Locations

Arrested: May 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


Transferred to Mainland: December 1942

Sent aboard the military troopship the Lurline with more than 430 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

January 1943 - June 1944


Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

June 1944 - November 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


Takeo Morikuni and Hiroe Yamasaki, daughter of Hawaii internee Kenichi Yamasaki, married while they were in Jerome. Their daughter, Gail Kae, was born in the Gila River Camp.