Internment Locations

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


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


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas


Returned to Hawaii


Isamu Osako and Haruko Betty Shimamoto married in Honolulu 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.