Arrested: September 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of twenty-three Issei men were sent aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds 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, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them.
Sharp Park Detention Station, California
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
June 1944
Repatriated to Japan: December 1942
Kanzen Ito was one of only eight Hawaii women who were arrested and sent to the Mainland for internment. They were unlike the women who entered Mainland internment as a way to reunify their families, for these women had been arrested and incarcerated. Kanzen Ito and Ishiko Mori, a physician, were sent to the Mainland with the Seventh Transfer Group.
Six women had been sent several months earlier in the Fourth Transfer Group; they were Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane.