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Internment Locations

Arrested: April 1943


Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island


Paroled: October 1943


All three of Tokuemon Moritsugu's sons served in the U.S. military during the World War II era. Richard Yutaka Moritsugu was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion before being assigned to the army's Military Intelligence Service; Sumito Moritsugu served as an army private; Tim Akira Moritsugu also was a member of the MIS. Richard Yutaka's son -- a grandson of internee Tokuemon Moritsugu -- would become Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu, the first Asian American Surgeon General of the United States.