強制収容所の場所

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

1月 1942 - 6月 1942


Fourth Transfer Group: June 1942

This internee was one of six women sent to the Mainland aboard the fourth transfer ship along with a larger group of mostly Issei men. The women were kept apart from the men and had a different internment sequence from them.


Sharp Park Detention Station, California

6月 1942 - 7月 1942


Seagoville Internment Camp, Texas

7月 1942 - 4月 1943


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

4月 1943 - 12月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


Yoshie Miyao was the step-mother of Rev. Shigemaru Miyao, whose late father had been the founder of the Izumo Taisha Shrine. Shortly after the Pearl Harbor bombing, Shigemaru Miyao and his wife, Yuki Miyao, were arrested. Yuki, it is believed, was mistaken for Yoshie, who continued to perform religious services at the shrine until her arrest later in December.

The imprisonment of the Miyao adults left the three young Miyao children to be cared for by relatives of grandmother Yoshie, the Inokuchi family of Waipahu. In time, the Inokuchi family head, Kakuji Inokuchi, would also be arrested and sent to the Honouliuli Internment Camp.

Yoshie and her daughter-in-law were confined together at Sand Island. They were among a group of only eight Hawaii women who were arrested and sent to the Mainland for internment. They were unlike the women who entered Mainland internment as a way to reunify their families, for these women had been arrested and incarcerated.

In addition to Yoshie and Yuki Miyao, four other women were sent in the Fourth Transfer Group; they were Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane. Two more women, Kanzen Ito and Ishiko Mori, were sent several months later with the Seventh Transfer Group.

From the Crystal City camp, Yoshie Miyao successfully petitioned the U.S. government to allow the transfer there of her fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Florence Atsuko Mikami, from her place of incarceration at the Rohwer camp in Arkansas. Yoshie Miyao was Florence Atsuko's paternal aunt as well as maternal step-grandmother by way of the Miyao family and she had reared Florence from infancy.