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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


One hundred and nine Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the third transfer ship for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members under confinement, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

June 1942


Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

June 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 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.


Buddhist priest Kogan Yoshizumi arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1927 with his wife, Taki, to serve as the new resident minister of the Soto Zen Mission's Taiheiji temple in the sugar plantation community of Aiea on Oahu Island. He also became the principal of the mission's Taihei Japanese Language School, which on the eve of World War II boasted some 150 students. 

In addition to Yoshizumi, many other Soto ministers throughout the islands were arrested and incarcerated during the war. They included the sect's bishop, Zenkyo Komagata, along with priests Shunan Fujisawa, Zenkai Kokuzo, Gyokuei Matsuura, Koetsu Morita, Hozui Nakayama, Kosan Nishizawa, Gijo Ozawa, Tetsuo Tanaka, Taiyu Toda, and Sokan Ueoka. Also incarcerated was the nun Kanzen Ito of the Mantokuji Soto Mission in Paia, Maui. 

Kogan Yoshizumi returned to his temple in Aiea after his imprisonment and served his community for the next twenty years, until his retirement in 1966.