Incarceration of Japanese & Japanese Americans in Hawaiʻi: Archival Resources

Photo of the barracks at the Honouliuli Internment Camp, taken by Ronald Harry Lodge.

Photo of the Honouliuli Internment Camp administrative area, taken by Ronald Harry Lodge.

15 boxes (4 linear feet)

UH Mānoa: Hamilton Archives and Manuscripts-JAVC Addition 5th floor (map)
Call Number: MANUSCRIPT AJA:014

Contains official government documents related to internment in Hawaiʻi and on the mainland, including materials from record groups 107, 210, 226, 338, 389, and 407 of the National Archives and Records Administration. Also contains private documents and taped oral history interviews and transcripts from twenty-four internees from Hawaiʻi; transcripts approximate twenty pages each.
Materials collected by Dennis Ogawa in connection with National Endowment for the Humanities grant RS 20125-81-1663.

Hamilton Archives & Manuscripts. For more information, contact them directly: archives@hawaii.edu.

The Hawaiʻi War Records Depository (HWRD) is an extensive collection of archival materials that document life in Hawaiʻi during World War II. In April of 1943, during its first session after the United States' entrance into World War II, the Hawaiʻi Territorial Legislature passed a joint resolution designating the University of Hawaiʻi as the official depository of material related to Hawaiʻi's part in the war. Over a five year period, individuals, organizations and agencies throughout the state donated or loaned correspondence, personal accounts, reports, photographs, scrapbooks, phonograph discs, maps, posters, artwork, pamphlets, newspapers, clippings, memorabilia and other materials.