強制収容所の場所

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


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1942 - 6月 1943


Paroled to Chicago, Illinois

6月 1943 - 5月 1944


New York, New York

5月 1944 - 12月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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


Seiyei Wakukawa immigrated to Hawaii from Okinawa as a child and graduated from the University of Hawaii. He also was a student in Japan. Wakukawa was a small business owner and sometime Japanese language school teacher at the time of his arrest.

According to Wakukawa, a letter he wrote from confinement to President Roosevelt resulted in his early parole in 1943. He taught Japanese on the Mainland until his return to the islands at the end of the war. He then worked for the Japanese language newspaper the Hawaii Times, retiring as an editor in the 1970s. 

In 1981, Wakukawa testified at the Seattle hearings of the bipartisan Congressional Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, the results of which would form the basis of the federal government's reparations to incarcerated Japanese Americans.