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 - 3月 1944
Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas
3月 1944 - 6月 1944
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming
6月 1944 - 11月 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Two children would be born in camp to Yoshio and Haruko Takahata: James Mitsuo in Jerome and Suzanne Hiroko in Heart Mountain.
During the family's wartime confinement, eldest son, Yoshinori Takahata, would be inducted into the U.S. Army and serve with the Military Intelligence Service.