Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
January 1943 - March 1943
Forty-two Issei men were sent in the eighth transfer group for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members under confinement, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Sharp Park Detention Station, California
March 1943 - August 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Three of Hikoju Otsuka's sons, Masami Otsuka, Akira Otsuka, and Osamu Otsuka, served in the U.S. Army during World War II.