Internment Locations
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
September 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 - May 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
May 1944 - November 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Yoshiyasu Terao was among several teachers of the Ewa Japanese Language School on Oahu Island to have been incarcerated during the war. The others were principal Isao Ichiba and teachers Misao Ichiba and Kotaro Taira.
Two of Terao's younger brothers served in the U.S. military during World War II. Norman Nobuyoshi Terao volunteered to become a Japanese language translator for the U.S. Army and was trained at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Camp Savage, Minnesota. Archie Atsuto Terao also served with the U.S. Army.