Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 172 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) was sent aboard the military transport ship USS U.S. Grant for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. Together, the men were sent from camp to camp.
In June 1943, this transfer group was split into two, with this group sent directly from Camp Livingston to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members under confinement. Others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
March 1942 - May 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
May 1942 - June 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - March 1944
Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas
March 1944 - June 1944
Rohwer Relocation Center, Arkansas
June 1944 - August 1945
A graduate of Japan's Kyoto Imperial University, Genyei Miyagi served before the war as an executive officer of the Hawaii Japanese Education Association, an organization of principals and teachers that set the direction and curriculum for the more than 150 Japanese language schools in the islands.
Miyagi was arrested on December 7, within hours of the Pearl Harbor bombing, at the Waialae Japanese Language School, where he was the principal. Teachers at the Waialae school who also were later incarcerated included Masaichi Sesoko and Shozo Takahashi.
Miyagi's wife, Fusako, who also was a teacher at the school, and his daughter, Kikuno, entered the confinement system in order to reunite the family, and they lived under incarceration in camps on the continent. After the war, the Miyagis moved to California.