Internment Locations
Arrested: September 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family and others transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
October 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
October 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Tatsujiro Otake immigrated to Hawaii from his native Hiroshima Prefecture at the age of fourteen. Some twenty years later, he opened a general store in Waialua on Oahu Island.
By the outbreak of World War II, Otake was a married father of five children, including a son who resided in Japan and was believed by the U.S. government to be a member of the Japanese imperial army. In the spring of 1943, with Tatsujiro under confinement on the Mainland, another son, Susumu Otake, volunteered in Hawaii for the U.S. Army and served as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.