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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 - 10月 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Suekuma Takaki came to Hawaii from his native Kumamoto Prefecture at the end of the Russo-Japanese War, having served as an officer in the imperial navy's medical corps.
He took over from his father, Gentaro Takaki, the running of the family's Higoya Hotel in the A'ala district of downtown Honolulu and then, in 1925, opened the Takaki Sanyo-do Drug Store on North King Street. During Suekuma's incarceration, son Ralph Takaki maintained operations of the store.