Incarceration of Japanese & Japanese Americans in Hawaiʻi: Audiovisual Materials

Most people are unaware that Kilauea Military Camp was used as a Japanese detainment camp during World War II. Park Archeologist Dr. Jadelyn Moniz-Nakamura will discuss the experience of the arrest and subsequent detention of Japanese Issei (first generation immigrants) and Nisei (second generation American citizens) at Kilauea Military Camp following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn more about how the camp was utilized and hear first-person accounts of their stories.

Includes videos about the Hawaiʻi incarceration of Japanese & Japanese Americans during World War II.

57 min., produced by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi (2013).

"Within hours of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi authorities arrested several hundred local Japanese on Oʻahu, Maui, Hawaiʻi island and Kauaʻi. They were Buddhist priests, Japanese language school officials, newspaper editors, business and community leaders. In total, over 2,000 men and women of Japanese ancestry were arrested, detained and interned at 13 different confinement sites located in Hawaiʻi. There was no evidence of espionage or sabotage and no charges were ever filed against them. While the story of the 1942 mass round-up, eviction, and imprisonment of Japanese Americans in California, Oregon, and Washington is well documented, very little is known about the Hawaiʻi internees and their unique experience during World War II."--Container.

Dr. Kelli Nakamura talks about the internment camps on various islands during World War II. Sign in with your UH username and password to view streaming video.

DVD at UHM AV Center and other UH libraries