Internment Locations

Transferred to Mainland: January 1943

Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.

Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

February 1943 - June 1944

Rohwer Concentration Camp, Arkansas

June 1944 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.

After the war, Sakateru Nakanishi worked as a fisherman on his father's sampan. In July 1947, less than two years after the family's return from incarceration, Kakichi Nakanishi and fellow internee Kuniichi Yoshimura were killed along two other crewmen when their vessel was rammed by two pineapple company tugs in the waters off of Molokai Island. Sakateru was the only one to survive.