Internment Locations
Transferred to Mainland: December 1942
Sent aboard the military troopship the Lurline with more than 430 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
January 1943 - June 1944
Heart Mountain Concentration Camp, Wyoming
June 1944 - August 1944
Chicago, Illinois
Returned to Hawaii: March 1946
Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf with his wife and their young son.
Following their release from confinement, Ronald Takahata and Asako Kawamura, also from Hawaii, were married in Chicago. Asako Kawamura was the daughter of Hawaii internee Shoichi Kawamura.