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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 - 9月 1943


Repatriated to Japan: September 1943

Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.


Shushin Matsubayashi's family returned to Japan. His three sons also became Buddhist ministers, including George Tadayoshi Matsubayashi, who was born in Hawaii and returned in the 1960s to serve at the Honpa Hongwanji Temple in Honolulu. George Matsubayashi married Kay Kiyoko Shirasu, daughter of Hawaii internee Rev. Jukaku Shirasu.