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Arrested: February 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport ship 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. This internee was in a sub-group of First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

3月 1942


Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

3月 1942 - 5月 1942


Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

5月 1942 - 6月 1942


Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

6月 1942 - 6月 1943


Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

6月 1943 - 4月 1944


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

4月 1944


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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


Chosuke Kayahara's two sons, Kaoru and Koji, served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. Kaoru Kayahara was a 20-year-old college student in Sacramento, California, at the outbreak of the war and was incarcerated at the Tule Lake Segregation Center until 1943. He served in the Military Intelligence Service, receiving linguistics training at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.