Internment Locations
Arrested: January 1943
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island
This internee was among thirty-four Issei men who were sent in the ninth 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
July 1943 - August 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1943 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
In late summer 1941, four Hawaii Nikkei were investigated by the FBI for their role in a plot to impersonate U.S. military intelligence officers in order to extort thousands of dollars from fellow immigrants by threatening to expose them as members of a Japanese spy ring. Charged with conspiracy were Nizo Arita, Masayoshi Mitose, Kuwasaburo Sakaguchi, and Mitsuo Tokunaga. With the outbreak of war, the four were ordered interned for its duration and the government waived prosecution in the extortion case. One of their victims, Kiroku Abe, would find himself interned as well, incarcerated at Honouliuli along with his assailants.