Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 172 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) was sent aboard the military transport ship USS U.S. Grant for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. Together, the men were sent from camp to camp.
In June 1943, this transfer group was split into two, with this group sent directly from Camp Livingston to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members under confinement. Others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
March 1942 - May 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
May 1942 - June 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
March 1943 - December 1945
Repatriated to Japan: December 1945
In addition to Shunan Fujisawa, many other Soto Zen ministers throughout the islands were arrested and incarcerated during the war. They included the sect's bishop, Zenkyo Komagata, along with priests Zenkai Kokuzo, Gyokuei Matsuura, Koetsu Morita, Hozui Nakayama, Kosan Nishizawa, Gijo Ozawa, Tetsuo Tanaka, Taiyu Toda, Sokan Ueoka and Kogan Yoshizumi. Also incarcerated was the nun Kanzen Ito of the Mantokuji Soto Mission in Paia, Maui.