Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 172 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent aboard the military transport ship USS U.S. Grant for internment in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. Together, the men were sent from camp to camp.
In June 1943, this transfer group was split into two, with this group sent directly from Camp Livingston to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members. Others were 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 - September 1942
Seagoville Internment Camp, Texas
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Seigi Yamane and his wife, Tsuta Yamane, were arrested together by U.S. military intelligence officials shortly after the Pearl Harbor bombing.
Tsuta Yamane was one of only eight Hawaii women who were arrested and sent to the Mainland for internment. The other women were Kiku Horibe, Kanzen Ito, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Ishiko Mori, and Haru Tanaka. Unlike the women who entered Mainland internment as a way to reunify their families, these women had been arrested and incarcerated. Moreover, among this group of eight women, three others also had husbands who were arrested and interned; they were Ryosaku Kawasaki (Miyuki), Shigemaru Miyao (Yuki), and Motokazu Mori (Ishiko).
Two of the Yamanes' sons, Frank K. Yamane and Ernest Y. Yamane, served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. Frank Yamane was a member of the army's Military Intelligence Service. In the 1950s, Ernest Yamane served as a deputy attorney general for the territory.