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). 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
This internee was among twenty-eight men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the sixth transfer group for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees 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
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.