Group Media & Photos
Jerome Relocation Center, Co-op Office. Shigeo Fujino is in the back row, second from the left. JCCH/ Anonymous Donor.
Members of Barrack 65, Santa Fe Interment Camp, ca. 1945. Rev. Tetsuo Tanaka (1st Row 3rd from L), Rev. Shigeo Fujino (2nd Row, 3rd from L). JCCH/ Nancy M. Fujino Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1945. Shigeo Fujino is in the first row, second from the left. JCCH/ Nancy M. Fujino Collection.
Izumo Taisha Fall Festival, October 1962. Row 1 (L-R): Rev. Shigemaru Miyao (3rd), Rev. Shigeo Fujino (4th), Masayuki Chikuma (6th). Row 2: Soichi Obata (1st), Senator-Elect Daniel Inouye (5th), Kaoru Oota (6th). Row 3: Matsujiro Otani (L of Inouye). Back Row: Yoshio Koike (2nd). JCCH/ Nancy M. Fujino Collection
Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Wailua County Jail, Kauai Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - August 1942
Sent Back to Hawaii: August 1942
This internee was part of a group of about nineteen internees (all Nisei, likely mistaken for Issei) who were returned to Hawaii in August 1942. Some spent the rest of their incarceration in Hawaii, while others were sent once again to the Mainland but this time to War Relocation Authority camps.
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: December 1942
Sent aboard the military troopship the Lurline with more than 430 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
January 1943 - May 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
May 1944 - June 1945