Arrested: December 1941
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 - 9月 1942
Seagoville Internment Camp, Texas
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Seigi Yamane and his wife, Tsuta Yamane, were arrested together by U.S. military intelligence officials shortly after the Pearl Harbor bombing.
Tsuta Yamane was one of only eight Hawaii women who were arrested and sent to the Mainland for internment. The other women were Kiku Horibe, Kanzen Ito, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Ishiko Mori, and Haru Tanaka. Unlike the women who entered Mainland internment as a way to reunify their families, these women had been arrested and incarcerated. Moreover, among this group of eight women, three others also had husbands who were arrested and interned; they were Ryosaku Kawasaki (Miyuki), Shigemaru Miyao (Yuki), and Motokazu Mori (Ishiko).
Two of the Yamanes' sons, Frank K. Yamane and Ernest Y. Yamane, served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. Frank Yamane was a member of the army's Military Intelligence Service. In the 1950s, Ernest Yamane served as a deputy attorney general for the territory.