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 - September 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
September 1943 - March 1946
Returned to Hawaii: March 1946
Haruko Shimamoto married Hawaii internee Isamu Osako just days before being sent into internment on the Mainland. In May 1944, Haruko gave birth in Tule Lake camp to their son, Masao, who died a few days later.