Internment Locations

Arrested: May 1942


U.S. Immigration Station, Honolulu, Oahu Island

May 1942 - June 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

June 1942 - January 1943


Transferred to Mainland: January 1943

Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

February 1943 - September 1943


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

September 1943 - March 1946


Returned to Hawaii: March 1946

Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf.


Hitoshi Taniguchi married Taeko Hoshiwara of Tacoma, Washington when they were in Tule Lake. Their son, Donald Seiso, was born in camp.