Internment Locations

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


Rohwer Concentration Camp, Arkansas

June 1944 - October 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Mitsuko Yoshimura was transferred to the Jerome Concentration Camp with her internee father, Kuniichi Yoshimura, and family in 1943. There she married fellow Hawaii internee Toshio Nuibe and in 1944, their daughter, Carole Yukiko, was born in camp.