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Internment Locations

Arrested: May 1942


Kauai County Jail, Wailua, Kauai Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among forty-nine men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the fifth transfer group for internment 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 or transferred for repatriation to Japan.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

August 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico


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.


Kazuto Taketa's son Charles Fumito Taketa served in World War II with the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service. Charles Fumito Taketa later became a professor of biochemistry at the Medical College of Wisconsin.