Internment Locations
Arrested: August 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
August 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 - March 1946
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
For seven years before the war, Mitsue Nakahara worked at the Hawaiian Tuna Packers' 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.
When he was arrested in the summer of 1942 and ordered incarcerated, the boat that transported him to the prison camp on Sand Island had been built by Nakahara himself.
Nakahara's brothers, Kazuichi and Tokushige, also were boatbuilders, and they too were incarcerated.