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Internment Locations

Arrested: October 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island


Paroled: May 1944


Dan Toru Nishikawa was a Kibei Nisei: born in Hawaii and educated in Japan. Returning to the islands at the age of 20, in 1926, he attended Mid-Pacific Institute to learn English and also helped his father with his dry goods distribution business. After the business closed during the Great Depression, Nishikawa worked as a salesman for the Nippu Jiji Japanese language newspaper. He married Grace Togawa and they had a son, Albert. 

Dan Nishikawa was arrested and interned in 1942 and eventually incarcerated at the Honouliuli Internment Camp. His family was impacted severely by his arrest, as Grace’s financial support disappeared. Nishikawa was paroled after eighteen months of confinement, in May 1944.