Internment Locations

Arrested: May 1942


Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family and others transferred for repatriation to Japan. 

Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them. 


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

October 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

October 1942 - June 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - March 1944


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

March 1944 - May 1944


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - January 1945


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico


Returned to Hawaii: April 1946


After nearly eighteen months of Mainland internment, Seikaku Takesono was allowed to transfer to the Jerome Camp in Arkansas, where he was reunited with his wife and daughter, who had entered the incarceration system as a way to reunify the family. Shortly thereafter, the Takesonos were transferred to Tule Lake, where a son, Satoru Jerald, was born. 

While Takesono was in Tule Lake, the War Department received information about a letter Takesono had written that indicated "strong pro-Japanese leanings and activities." Based on this letter, Takesono's parole was revoked and he was sent back to Santa Fe in early 1945, shortly after the birth of his son. His wife and children remained in Tule Lake.

After the war, the Takesonos returned to the islands, and Seikaku Takesono served for the next several decades as a Buddhist priest in Kapa'a on Kauai Island and then at the main temple of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission in Honolulu.