強制収容所の場所

Arrested: February 1942

Honolulu, Oahu Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer 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.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

6月 1942


Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

6月 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1942 - 6月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 10月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

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


Chinyei Kinjo's father, Chinzen Kinjo, was among the first group of 27 contract laborers from Okinawa who arrived in January 1900 to work on the sugar plantations of Hawaii. Chinyei, born in Okinawa some two weeks after his father's immigration, came to the islands as a young man and also worked in the cane fields before attending Iolani School. In 1926, he became the publisher and editor of the weekly Yoen Jiho.