Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer 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.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
6月 1942
Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas
6月 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1942 - 6月 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1943 - 3月 1944
Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas
3月 1944 - 5月 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
5月 1944 - 6月 1945
Re-Interned
6月 1945 - 12月 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Before the war, Minoru Nakano served as an executive officer with the Honolulu Japanese Contractors Association. Also serving as officers were other Hawaii internees including Shigeru Horita, Moichi Matsumoto, Tamejiro Nakano, Osuke Shigemoto, and Seiichi Sugimoto.