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 - June 1944
Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona
June 1944 - November 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Kikuye Shinkawa, a widow with two young sons, married Kanichi Murata in November 1942. Within a month, the new family was being transferred into internment on the U.S. Mainland.