Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among forty-two Issei men who were sent in the eighth transfer group 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.


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.