Internment Locations

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group: February 1942

This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant for internment 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 or transferred for repatriation to Japan.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

March 1942

Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

March 1942 - May 1942

Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

May 1942

Repatriated to Japan: June 1942

Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were nine Hawaii internees.

Genji Otani returned to his native Fukui Prefecture. He died there of an illness in 1944.