Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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
3月 1942 - 4月 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
4月 1942
Died in Camp: June 1942
Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
Itsuo Inazaki arrived in Hawaii in 1907 from his native Kumamoto Prefecture and initially worked as a sugar plantation laborer on the Big Island. Over the course of the next decade, he worked in Honolulu and on Molokai Island before settling on Maui. With the death of his wife in 1921, Inazaki was left to care for his three young children.
By 1941, the widower was a mail carrier in the sugar plantation community of Spreckelsville. Arrested shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, Inazaki was sent into internment on the Mainland.
Within days of arriving at Camp Livingston in Louisiana, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at the camp hospital on June 19, 1942. He was buried in the camp the next day.