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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: December 1941


Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among forty-nine men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the fifth 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

8月 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

8月 1942 - 6月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 3月 1945


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


Arriving on Maui in 1929, Taizen Imamura would go on to serve as resident minister of the Wailuku Jodo Mission for more than 50 years. His son, Yutaka, would become the Rev. Yuzen Imamura and succeed his father at the Wailuku temple. Together, the Imamuras would serve the temple community for more than 70 years.