Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 172 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent aboard the military transport ship USS U.S. Grant for internment 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 from Camp Livingston to Fort Missoula before being transferred to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members. 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
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943
Died in Camp: : September 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
Several weeks after Masao Sogawa's death, the priests among the internees conducted a funeral service, described by Kumaji Furuya in his memoir, An Internment Odyssey, published in 2017 by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i:
"Rev. Gikyo Kuchiba presided at the service, and all the Buddhist priests recited sutras. The atmosphere was solemn. Totaro Matsui offered the eulogy on behalf of all the internees. 'You were regarded as an influential man among us Japanese in Hawaii, and so you were arrested by the FBI along with us. For the next year and a half, we lived together, first in the crowded detainment room in the INS building, then in the tents at Sand Island, in the hold of a military ship, in snowy Wisconsin, amid thunderstorms at the hilltop camp in Tennessee, and in the blazing heat of Louisiana. You were always cheerful and encouraged those of us who tended to be dispirited. Now that you are gone, we feel such deep sorrow.' No one uttered a word, and a silence came over us. Some wept, feeling so deeply for him."