Group Media & Photos
Shingon ministers and supporters, Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1944. 1st Row (L-R): Manjiro Konno (1st), Kanekichi Yanagihara (2nd), Rev. Shodo Kawamura (5th), Teiji Kawamata (7th), Iwata Sugimura (8th). 2nd Row (L-R): Ryozo Izutsu (1st), Masasuke Ishikawa (2nd), Rev. Myoshu Sasai (3rd), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (4th), Rev. Tetsuei Katoda (6th), Sadaichi (Teiichi) Suzuki (7th), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (8th), Rev. Yuko Nonomura (10th), Takazo Arita (11th), Takejiro Nakagawa (12th). 3rd Row (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (3rd), Kazuaki Tanaka (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). 4th row (L-R): Rev. Hosho Kurohira (1st), Rev. Jitsuryu Tanaka (2nd), Aisuke Kuniyuki (3rd), Genzo Suzuki (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: June 1942
Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island
July 1942 - September 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
September 1942 - October 1942
A group of twenty-three Issei men were sent aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
October 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
October 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - December 1944
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
December 1944 - December 1945
Repatriated to Japan: December 1945
Takazo Arita and his wife, Kimiko Kuniyuki Arita, were among four members of the extended Kuniyuki family to be interned during the war. Kimiko's uncle, Aisuke Kuniyuki, was in the Third Transfer Group sent to the Mainland in May 1942. Her cousin and Aisuke's nephew, Takeo Kuniyuki, worked before the war for the Aritas in their barber shop. Takeo Kuniyuki spent the war years in Hawaii, confined mostly at the Honouliuli Internment Camp on Oahu Island.
During this same period, four other members of the Kuniyuki family served in the U.S. military: Takeo Kuniyuki's brother, Naoji Kuniyuki, and three of Aisuke Kuniyuki's sons -- Henry Seiya, Edward Mutsuya, and George Nobuya (also known as Klayton).