Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


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 - June 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - March 1944


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

March 1944 - May 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - June 1945


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1945 - December 1945


Repatriated to Japan: December 1945


Shinto priest Yonezo Sueyasu was arrested following the Pearl Harbor bombing and sent into internment on the Mainland. His family subsequently followed him, and when Yonezo was paroled to the Jerome Concentration Camp in Arkansas, the family was reunited there. The Sueyasus were soon transferred to the Tule Lake Segregation Center, where daughter Yoshie Katherine married California internee Toshio Tanabe. A son was born to the Tanabes in Tule Lake. 

In June 1945, Yonezo was rearrested and sent back to Santa Fe, where he remained until December 1945, when he repatriated to Japan with his wife and three other daughters. 

Yonezo Sueyasu returned to the islands in 1954 and was associated with the Izumo Taisha Shrine in Honolulu. He died in Honolulu about a year after his return.