Incarceration of Japanese & Japanese Americans in Hawaiʻi: Online Resources

The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii (JCCH) is proud to provide this searchable directory of those of Japanese ancestry who were arrested and confined in the Territory of Hawai‘i during World War II. You will find the internee names, their place of residence in 1941, their occupation, the names of family members who were also incarcerated, and the name(s) of site(s) where they were imprisoned.

Map of sites associated with Japanese Americans during World War II, including Hawaiʻi.

Includes oral histories, resources, and photographs plus a map of internment camps in Hawaiʻi.

Includes sites of incarceration in Hawaii during World War II.

The Ireichō contains the first comprehensive listing of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in US Army, Department of Justice, Wartime Civil Control Administration, and War Relocation Authority camps. Embedded into the very materiality of the Ireichō are special ceramic pieces made from soil collected by the project from seventy-five former incarceration sites from Alaska to Hawai‘i, Arkansas to California, and from almost every other region of the United States.

The Ireizō lists those names online at ireizo.com. Visitors can search for the person’s name by name, birth year, or camp.