Internment Locations

Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


Transferred to Mainland: March 1943

Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 210 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.


Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah

March 1943 - September 1943


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

September 1943 - March 1946


Returned to Hawaii: March 1946

Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf.


Sakae Yamasaki and Sumiye Nukushima of San Francisco were married in Topaz. A son, Katsunari, was born in Tule Lake, as was a daughter, Junko, who died soon after her birth.