Group Media & Photos
Hospital kitchen staff, Jerome Concentration Camp. Kneeling (L-R): Haruto Harold Itoh (1st), Shizuo Yoshikane (2nd). Standing: Masuo Niki (2nd from left). JCCH/Shizuo Yoshikane.
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Internment Locations
Arrested: May 1942
U.S. Immigration Station, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
June 1942 - January 1943
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
Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona
June 1944 - September 1945
Sacramento, California
Before the war, Masuo Niki and his brother, Takeo, ran the Hinode Macaroni Company in Honolulu. Masuo married Michiko Grace Inouye of California while both were in Jerome, and their daughter, Maria Masuko, was born the next year in Gila River.