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.