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 - June 1945


Minneapolis, Minnesota


New York, New York


In June 1943, while incarcerated in Jerome, Sumie Nakanishi married Ryoichi Okada of Honolulu, then serving in the U.S. Army with the 100th Infantry Battalion.