Internment Locations

Arrested: August 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among twenty-eight men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the sixth transfer group for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees 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

September 1942 - October 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

October 1942 - June 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - October 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Tokujiro Yanagi's son Walbert Tokumasa Yanagi served in World War II as a member of the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service.