Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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 - April 1942


Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma

April 1942 - May 1942


Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

March 1943 - December 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


Rev. Giko Tsuge, a native of Shimane Prefecture, came to the islands in the early 1930s as a Buddhist missionary of the Shin Jodo sect. In 1934, he married Rev. Hatsuko Yamauchi, the first island-born woman to become a Buddhist priest, and they began a partnership of what would become several decades of service at the Honoka'a Hongwanji Mission, spanning Giko Tsuge's internment and return to the Big Island at the war's end. He retired in 1974 as head of the Hongwanji's main temple in Hilo, the largest Buddhist mission on Hawaii Island.