Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
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 - 3月 1944
Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas
3月 1944 - 5月 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
5月 1944 - 6月 1945
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1945 - 12月 1945
Repatriated to Japan: December 1945
Shinto priest Yonezo Sueyasu was arrested following the Pearl Harbor bombing and sent into internment on the Mainland. His family subsequently followed him, and when Yonezo was paroled to the Jerome Concentration Camp in Arkansas, the family was reunited there. The Sueyasus were soon transferred to the Tule Lake Segregation Center, where daughter Yoshie Katherine married California internee Toshio Tanabe. A son was born to the Tanabes in Tule Lake.
In June 1945, Yonezo was rearrested and sent back to Santa Fe, where he remained until December 1945, when he repatriated to Japan with his wife and three other daughters.
Yonezo Sueyasu returned to the islands in 1954 and was associated with the Izumo Taisha Shrine in Honolulu. He died in Honolulu about a year after his return.