Internment Locations
Arrested: June 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island
March 1943 - July 1944
Paroled: July 1944
Tsuda was known by many names: Kiyome Hirai (at birth), Alice Kiyome Tsuda (upon marriage), Ryuto Tsuda (during the war, as a Buddhist nun), Ryuto Hirai (upon divorce). She is also associated with the religious names Shinsho Hirai and, after the war, Bishop Tatsusho Hirai, founder of the Todaiji Hawaii Temple in Nuuanu Valley, which she led until her death in 1987.
Along with Tsuda, only five other Japanese women from Hawaii were ever interned at Honouliuli. They were Masako Fujimura, Irene Umeno Harada, Helen Shizuko Nakagawa, Haruko Takahashi, and Yasue Takahashi.