Internment Locations

Arrested: August 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


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 - March 1946


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas


Before the war, Kazuichi Nakahara and his brothers, Tokushige and Mitsue Nakahara, worked at the Kewalo boatyard building the wooden hulled sampans used by Hawaii's long-line, aku fisherman, honing a craft learned through years of training in Yamaguchi, Japan.