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.