Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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 - 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.