Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group: February 1942

This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant 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

March 1942

Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

March 1942 - May 1942

Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

May 1942 - June 1942

Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

June 1942 - August 1942

Sent Back to Hawaii: August 1942

This internee was part of a group of about nineteen internees (all Nisei, likely mistaken for Issei) who were returned to Hawaii in August 1942. Some spent the rest of their incarceration in Hawaii, while others were sent once again to the Mainland but this time to War Relocation Authority camps.

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

August 1942 - November 1942

Transferred to Mainland: November 1942

Sent aboard the passenger ship Antigua with more than 100 other Hawaii residents to War Relocation Authority camps on the Mainland.

Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

November 1942 - 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.

Manabu Tashiro's older brother Benjamin Masaru Tashiro, the first Japanese American allowed to practice law on Kauai Island, served during World War II as a Japanese language interpreter and instructor for the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service. After the war, Benjamin Tashiro returned to his legal practice on Kauai and in 1955 he was appointed judge of Kauai's 5th Circuit Court, where he served until his retirement.