Internment Locations

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


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 - June 1942


Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

June 1942 - August 1942


Sent Back to Hawaii: August 1942

This internee was part of a group of about nineteen internees (all Nisei, likely mistaken for Issei) who were returned to Hawaii in August 1942. Some spent the rest of their incarceration in Hawaii, while others were sent once again to the Mainland but this time to War Relocation Authority camps.


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

August 1942 - March 1943


Transferred to Mainland: March 1943

Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.


Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah

March 1943 - September 1943


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

September 1943 - November 1945


Expatriated to Japan


With Sanji Sakamoto on the teaching staff at the Waianae Japanese School was George Joji Nakayama, who also was interned.