Internment Locations
Arrested: September 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family and others transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
October 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
October 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - November 1944
Amache (Granada) Concentration Camp, Colorado
November 1944 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Shigeru Murakami's son, Staff Sgt. Toshio Murakami, was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion during World War II. A few weeks prior to his deployment to Italy, Toshio visited his father in the Santa Fe Camp.
Toshio Murakami was killed in battle in Italy in July 1944.