Internment Locations
Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island
Transferred to Oahu Island: June 1942
This internee was in a group of thirty-two men who arrived on Oahu from Maui Island.
U.S. Immigration Station, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
June 1942 - December 1942
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 - September 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
September 1943 - March 1946
Returned to Hawaii: March 1946
Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf.
In 1940, Kaoru Nagatani was among thirteen members of the Maui Nikkei community who were elected officers of the local Japanese Society. After the outbreak of World War II, all were arrested and imprisoned, some were interned, most had sons who served in the U.S. military during the war. These men were president Seiichi Ohata; vice-presidents Unosuke Ogawa and Motoichi Kobayashi; Japanese secretary Tomeichi Fujii; English secretary Kaoru Nagatani; treasurers Yoshio Yamane, Riichi Shibano, and Robert Sosuke Toda; auditors Kanichi Takitani, Masaru Morikawa, Makizo Kawaharada, Hatsugoro Makimoto, and Ikkei Kawachi.