Internment Locations
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
Rohwer Concentration Camp, Arkansas
June 1944 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
In July 1947, some 18 months after the Yoshimura family's return from Mainland incarceration, Nao's husband, Kuniichi Yoshimura, and fellow internee Kakichi Nakanishi were killed along two other crewmen when their fishing sampan was rammed by two pineapple company tugs in the waters off of Molokai Island. The lone survivor of the accident was Kakichi Nakanishi's son Sakateru.