Arrested: August 1942
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among twenty-eight men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the sixth transfer group 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
9月 1942 - 10月 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
10月 1942 - 6月 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1943 - 7月 1943
Died in Camp: July 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
In the summer of 1942, Nizo Nishizaki, also known as Mitsuo Nishizaki, was found guilty of being a Japanese national unlawfully in possession of a camera and was fined $25.
His son Ogden Masayoshi, a teacher at Hilo Intermediate School, had been inducted into the U.S. Army in 1941 and was at the time of Nizo Nishizaki's arrest in training at Schofield Barracks on Oahu Island. Some nine months later, Ogden was among 10,000 Hawaii Nisei who volunteered for a segregated Japanese-American military unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
Ogden Nishizaki's dispatches from Camp Shelby, in southern Mississippi where the 442nd trained, were printed in his hometown newspaper, the Hilo Herald Tribune.
When Nizo Nishizaki died in the Santa Fe Internment Camp in July 1943, Pvt. Ogden Nishizaki travelled from the Army base to the internment camp to attend his father's funeral.