Internment Locations

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 - May 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - November 1945


New York, New York


Returned to Hawaii: March 1946

Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf.


Hideo Murakami enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1946. He received training as a linguist and was sent to Japan to serve as a translator-interpreter with the U.S. Occupation forces.