Arrested: March 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Tripler Army Hospital, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 109 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the third transfer ship for internment 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, 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.
In the spring of 1942, Keisaburo Hirano was tried in a provost court in Honolulu and found guilty of possessing wartime contraband, including a shortwave radio, a sword, three cameras, a pair of binoculars, and maps of California. He also was found guilty of failing to report a period of voluntary service with the Japanese army reserves some thirty years prior. Hirano was sentenced to five years of hard labor and fined $5,000, but due to overcrowding at Oahu Prison, he was ordered interned for the duration of the war.