Internment Locations

Arrested: August 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration 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 and others transferred for repatriation to Japan. 

Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them. 


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

October 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

October 1942 - June 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - August 1943


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

August 1943 - September 1943


Repatriated to Japan: September 1943

Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.