Internment Locations
Arrested: June 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
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 - June 1944
Heart Mountain Concentration Camp, Wyoming
June 1944 - September 1945
While in Jerome, Koichi Watanabe married Yukiko Ideta, daughter of Hawaii internee Masaru Ideta. The Watanabes' daughter, June Junko, was born in Heart Mountain.