Muraoka, Katsukichi - Hawai‘i Internee Database

Internment Locations

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

September 1942 - March 1943

Transferred to Mainland: March 1943

Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.

Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah

March 1943 - September 1943

Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

September 1943

Died in Camp: June 1945

Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

Katsukichi Muraoka died in the Tule Lake camp following a brief illness. A former teacher at the Waialae Japanese Language School in Honolulu, Muraoka was serving as a staff member at the Japanese Consulate when the war broke out.

INTERNEE DETAILS

Internee Name:
Katsukichi Muraoka

Name In Japanese:
村岡勝吉

Date of Birth:
1907

Generation:
Nisei

Residence:
Honolulu, Oahu

EMPLOYMENT

Occupation:
Clerk, Japanese Consulate General

HOUSEHOLD