Arrested: April 1942
U.S. Immigration Station, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
April 1942 - May 1942
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
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
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.
Ryosaku Kawasaki's wife, Miyuki Kawasaki, a Tenrikyo priest, was one of only eight women who were arrested and sent to the continent for incarceration. The situation of these eight women differed from that of the women who entered Mainland concentration camps as a way to reunify their families, for these women had been arrested and incarcerated.
The Kawasakis' son Edward Shizuo Kawasaki served in the U.S. armed forces during the war.