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
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
3月 1943 - 12月 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Rev. Giko Tsuge, a native of Shimane Prefecture, came to the islands in the early 1930s as a Buddhist missionary of the Shin Jodo sect. In 1934, he married Rev. Hatsuko Yamauchi, the first island-born woman to become a Buddhist priest, and they began a partnership of what would become several decades of service at the Honoka'a Hongwanji Mission, spanning Giko Tsuge's internment and return to the Big Island at the war's end. He retired in 1974 as head of the Hongwanji's main temple in Hilo, the largest Buddhist mission on Hawaii Island.