Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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 - 4月 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
4月 1942 - 5月 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
6月 1942 - 6月 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1943 - 8月 1945
Died in Camp: August 1945
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
A leader in the Japanese immigrant community, Hiroshi Tahara was president of the Hawaii Central Japanese Education Association, an organization of principals and teachers that set the direction and curriculum for the more than 150 Japanese language schools in the islands.
Tahara's son, Charles Satoru Tahara, a teacher at the Papaikou school, volunteered in spring 1943 to be a Japanese language translator for the U.S. Army. He received linguistics training at Camp Savage in Minnesota and was a sergeant with the Military Intelligence Service.
When Hiroshi Tahara died in Santa Fe, he became the last Hawaii internee to perish in captivity. A funeral service was held for him in camp several days later.