Internment Locations
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 109 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the third transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
June 1942
Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas
June 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - March 1944
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
March 1944 - May 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
May 1944 - June 1945
Re-Interned: Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1945 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Before the war, Minoru Nakano served as an executive officer with the Honolulu Japanese Contractors Association. Also serving as officers were other Hawaii internees including Shigeru Horita, Moichi Matsumoto, Tamejiro Nakano, Osuke Shigemoto, and Seiichi Sugimoto.