We are more than seventy years removed from World War II, yet we still struggle to record history accurately and completely. Over the years I’ve found a number of perspectives on Japanese American incarceration in Hawaii, with the predominant narrative being that the large Japanese and Japanese American populations meant that it would be logistically difficult and economically harmful to incarcerate Japanese and Japanese Americans on the islands.

• “Honouliuli National Monument,” National Park Service 
• “Honouliuli History & Culture,” National Park Service
• “Once Lost, Internment Camp In Hawaii Now A National Monument,” NPR
• “Sand Island” (detention center)Densho Encyclopedia
• “The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii,” Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii
• “Internment of Japanese & Japanese Americans in Hawaii,” University of Hawaii Library 
• “The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii,” Lithub
• “How Hawaii’s Japanese Population Was Spared Internment During WWII,” Time
• “Treatment of Japanese Americans in WWII Hawaii Revealed in Article,” Berkeley Law