Internment Locations

Left Hawaii: August 1942

Part of a group of almost forty Hawaii families (wives, mothers and children) sent to the Mainland for intended repatriation to Japan along with their husbands and fathers already in incarceration. The families' transfer was overseen by the War Department, and the group was accompanied by Hawaii physician Isao Murai, a representative of the American Red Cross.


Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina


Assembly Inn, Montreat, North Carolina


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

May 1943 - December 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.