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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: February 1942


Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 39 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the fourth 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. 

Also sent on the same ship were six Issei women internees: Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane. The women were kept apart from the men and had a different internment sequence from them.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

6月 1942 - 7月 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

7月 1942 - 6月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 10月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Zenji Takahashi emigrated from Kochi Prefecture to Waimanalo, Oahu, and went on to settle in Kohala and Hawi on Hawaii Island, where he raised his family. 

A carpenter and contractor, he participated in the construction of the Hawi Catholic Church, the Shingon-shu Temple in Kona, the Konko Mission in Hilo, and the Waimea Gym, all on the Big Island. In 1940, Takahashi had a part in fashioning military housing into the Konko Church in Wahiawa, Oahu. 

He was the father of Konko minister Haruko Takahashi, who was herself arrested and confined at the Honouliuli Internment Camp for some 16 months.