Internment Locations

Arrested: May 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island

March 1943 - November 1944


Transferred to the Mainland: November 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

November 1944 - March 1946


Kotaro Taira was among several teachers of the Ewa Japanese Language School on Oahu Island to have been incarcerated during the war. The others were principal Isao Ichiba and teachers Misao Ichiba and Yoshiyasu Terao.