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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: December 1941


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 - 10月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Arriving in Hawaii from Kumamoto Prefecture, Tomiji Kimura became the chief priest of the Ishizuchi Jinja in Moilili in 1927. He returned to the Shinto temple at the end of his internment and remained there until his death in 1981, a service of more than 50 years.