強制収容所の場所

Arrested: December 1941

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group: February 1942

This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant 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

3月 1942

Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

3月 1942 - 5月 1942

Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

5月 1942 - 6月 1942

Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

6月 1942 - 6月 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 9月 1943

Repatriated to Japan: September 1943

Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.

Koten Suetomi arrived in the islands as a Shingon Buddhist missionary in 1916. He spent seventeen years as the resident minister of the Hilo Hooganji Temple before transferring to the Shingon Mission's Honolulu headquarters in 1937. It was in this capacity as bishop of the Shingon sect in Hawaii that he fell under the scrutinity of government authorities and was arrested following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.