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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: November 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among forty-two Issei men who were sent in the eighth transfer group 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.


Sharp Park Detention Station, California

3月 1943 - 8月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

8月 1943 - 12月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


In the 1960s, Wataru Takeshita served as the principal of the Manoa Japanese Language School, the second largest postwar Japanese school in the state, with an enrollment of some 500 students.