Group Media & Photos

Big Island photographers. City of Refuge, Kona, Hawaii Island, 1937. 1st row, seated: Kenichi Maehara (white hat); Kumaichi Fukuba (1st from R). Back Row: Takeshi Kanemori (1st from L). Fukuba, Maehara, and the parents of Kanemori, Shinroku and Fujino Kanemori, were incarcerated during the war. JCCH/Richard Sakihara Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: February 1942

Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Sixth Transfer Group: September 1942

Twenty-eight Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent in the sixth transfer group 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 under confinement, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

September 1942 - October 1942

Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

October 1942

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.

Kumaichi Fukuba's son Shuji Fukuba served in the U.S. military during World War II. He received training as a linguist at the Military Intelligence Service Language School, first at the Presidio in San Francisco and then at Camp Savage and Fort Snelling in Minnesota. As member of the "Zebra Platoon," MIS linguists trained in civilian censorship, Shuji Fukuba served with the U.S. Occupation forces in Japan.