Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 167 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. Together, the men were sent from camp to camp.
In June 1943, this transfer group was split into two, with this group sent directly from Camp Livingston to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members. Others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - August 1945
Died in Camp: August 1945
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
A leader in the Japanese immigrant community, Hiroshi Tahara was president of the Hawaii Central Japanese Education Association, an organization of principals and teachers that set the direction and curriculum for the more than 150 Japanese language schools in the islands.
Tahara's son, Charles Satoru Tahara, a teacher at the Papaikou school, volunteered in spring 1943 to be a Japanese language translator for the U.S. Army. He received linguistics training at Camp Savage in Minnesota and was a sergeant with the Military Intelligence Service.
When Hiroshi Tahara died in Santa Fe, he became the last Hawaii internee to perish in captivity. A funeral service was held for him in camp several days later.