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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 - October 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Suekuma Takaki came to Hawaii from his native Kumamoto Prefecture at the end of the Russo-Japanese War, having served as an officer in the imperial navy's medical corps. 

He took over from his father, Gentaro Takaki, the running of the family's Higoya Hotel in the A'ala district of downtown Honolulu and then, in 1925, opened the Takaki Sanyo-do Drug Store on North King Street. During Suekuma's incarceration, son Ralph Takaki maintained operations of the store.