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Arrested: December 1941


Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among forty-nine men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the fifth transfer group 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

8月 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

8月 1942 - 6月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 7月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: July 1945


In the summer of 1945, the U.S. Army allowed ten of Hawaii's 160 internees with sons serving in the military to return to the islands. With three sons in the U.S. armed forces, Teiichiro Maehara was among those granted early release. 

Saburo Maehara, a teacher at Baldwin High School on Maui Island before the war, was a lieutenant with the 100th Infantry Battalion. Before being shipped out to the European theatre, Saburo visited his father at the Santa Fe Internment Camp. In April 1944, on his 30th birthday, Saburo Maehara was killed by artillery fire during the Battle of the Po Valley in Northern Italy. Wounded in this same battle was Teiichiro Maehara's son-in-law, Samuel Yutaka Sasai, a recipient of the Bronze Star.

Edward Goro Maehara, a 1943 volunteer, was an officer with the U.S. Military Intelligence Service and served with the U.S. Occupation forces in Tokyo. Samuel Rokuro Maehara also was an officer in the MIS.

Other internees with soldier sons who returned in July 1945 were Ryosei Aka, Ryozo Izutsu, Kichitaro Kawauchi, Kametaro Maeda, Tamehachi Makihira, Nobuichi Miura, Kyoichi Miyata, Hanzo Shimoda, and Nekketsu Takei.

Teiichiro Maehara's other sons include Shiro "Angel" Maehara, who would become a prominent postwar businessman and owner of the Asahi baseball team, and eldest son, Ichiro Maehara, a legend in the Maui baseball community. The Ichiro "Iron" Maehara Baseball Stadium in Wailuku honors his legacy.