Researcher from the Kauai Museum have painstakingly pieced together the history of Japanese Americans sent to incarceration camps on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, reports The Garden Island.
The project started five years ago and focuses on people born in Kauai or who were on Kauai at the time of their imprisonment.
Many mistakenly believe that Japanese Americans on Hawaii were not rounded up in World War II, but that is not the case.
A small percentage on the Islands were.
Out of 140,000 Japanese Americans in Hawaii in 1940, about one percent were sent to incarceration camps.
“We think that we have identified 90 to 95 percent of the people and there are a few more out there we don’t know about,” said Roy Miyake, a volunteer researcher with the Kauai Museum.
You can read about how those incarcerated were chosen, where they went and the photos found that helped researchers in their efforts in The Garden Island.
