Internment Locations
Transferred to Mainland: November 1942
Sent aboard the passenger ship Antigua with more than 100 other Hawaii residents to War Relocation Authority camps on the Mainland.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
November 1942 - August 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 her father was sent to the Mainland for incarceration, Takeko Nekomoto's mother died in Honolulu. Some five months later, in November 1942, the fourteen-year-old was among a group of about one hundred Hawaii residents (mostly U.S. citizens) who were transported 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.