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強制収容所の場所

Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among forty-nine men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the fifth 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.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

8月 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

8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.


Yakichi Watanabe's two sons, Brown Mitsugi and Walter Hitoshi, served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. Brown Mitsugi Watanabe was an Army staff sergeant. Walter Hitoshi Watanabe volunteered in 1943 and was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He was the recipient of two Purple Hearts.