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Arrested: December 1941


U.S. Immigration Station, Honolulu, Oahu Island

12月 1941 - 1月 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

1月 1942 - 10月 1942


This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration 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 and others transferred for repatriation to Japan. 

Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them. 


Sharp Park Detention Station, California

10月 1942 - 7月 1943


Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

8月 1943 - 12月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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


Physician Ishiko Shibuya arrived in Hawaii in 1927 and worked at the Japanese Hospital in Honolulu. Several years later, she married widower Motokazu Mori, a surgeon and son of one of the hospital's founders, prominent Issei physician Iga Mori.

Several days before December 7, 1941, Ishiko Mori conducted an interview of her husband on the state of affairs in the territory for the Japanese Yomiuri newspaper. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the actions of the Moris came under suspicion and the couple were arrested as possible spies.

Ishiko Mori thus became one of only eight Hawaii women to be arrested and interned on the Mainland. Unlike the women who entered Mainland internment as a way to reunify their families, these women had been arrested and incarcerated. Mori and the Buddhist nun Kanzen Ito were sent with the Seventh Transfer Group. Six women had been sent several months earlier in the Fourth Transfer Group; they were Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane.

After nearly two years of separation, Ishiko Mori was reunited with her husband in Crystal City, where the couple worked at the camp hospital. After the war, a U.S. congressional commission would determine that the Mori interview had not been coded intelligence and that the Moris had not engaged in espionage.