Internment Locations
Arrested: March 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or 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 - September 1943
Repatriated to Japan: September 1943
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.
Two weeks after Shunichi Nekomoto was sent to be incarcerated on the Mainland, his wife died in Honolulu, leaving their fourteen-year-old daughter without either parent. Half a year later, in November 1942, Takeko Nekomoto was sent with a group of about one hundred Hawaii residents (mostly U.S. citizens) to the Jerome Concentration Camp in Arkansas. Chaperoning Takeko was Kikuyo Suetomi, the wife of Rev. Koten Suetomi, who herself was being transferred to the Mainland to join her internee husband.