Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant 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.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
3月 1942
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
3月 1942 - 5月 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
5月 1942 - 6月 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
6月 1942 - 8月 1942
Sent Back to Hawaii: August 1942
This internee was part of a group of about nineteen internees (all Nisei, likely mistaken for Issei) who were returned to Hawaii in August 1942. Some spent the rest of their incarceration in Hawaii, while others were sent once again to the Mainland but this time to War Relocation Authority camps.
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
8月 1942 - 1月 1943
Transferred to Mainland: January 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas
2月 1943 - 6月 1943
Leupp Isolation Center, Utah
6月 1943 - 12月 1943
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
12月 1943 - 12月 1944
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
12月 1944 - 3月 1945
Fort Stanton Internment Camp, New Mexico
San Pedro Detention Station, California
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
6月 1946 - 10月 1946
Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, New Jersey
Released: September 1947
In response to the government's mass incarceration of its Japanese citizens, Norizane Tsuha, a Buddhist priest born in Waipahu on Oahu Island, renounced his American citizenship and refused to serve in the U.S. military. His internment sequence involves the greatest number of incarceration sites and is one of the most convoluted among the Hawaii internees, including camps for those viewed as "trouble-makers" and the most intransigent.
Norizane Tsuha and Kiyoko Ogata of Long Beach, California were married in Tule Lake.