Group Media & Photos
Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1943 - 1945. Front row 2, seated (L-R): Itsuo Hamada (11th), Wataru Takeshita (12th), Sadashichi Miura (13th), Iwaki Watanabe (16th). Row 3, half row: Akimasa Watanabe (6th), Shigeru Yano (8th). Row 4: Tamezo Takemori (1st), Shigeki Mizumoto (2nd), Tamio Nakamura (5th), Hisashi Fukuhara (7th), Mitsutaka Horiuchi (9th), Toramatsu Matsumoto (10th), Yasuyuki Mizutari (15th), Torao Iseri (17th), Tomoji Matsumura (18th), Toyoki Kimura (21st). Row 5: Kokichi Nakamura (4th), Yoshio Yoshioka (5th), Kiyoshi Yonemura (6th), Gengo Honda (7th), Junzo Mashita (8th), Ushitaro Yonezaki (10th), Kinori Nishino (11th), Chikashi Nakayama (12th), Kentaro Hirashima (13th), Ishima Kusano (14th), Zenzo Kisada (15th), Tatsuji Morimoto (16th), Tatsuo Ito (17th). Row 6: Hideki Takahashi (2nd), Hisatoshi Tanisaki (10th), Takashi Hamada (11th), Kyujiro Nakashima (13th), Sokutaro Ashihara (16th). Row 7: Nejio Sonoda (13th), Takichi Kinoshita (14th), Yaichi Yamamoto (20th). Back row: Kunitaro Takeuchi (2nd), Satoru Hirae (9th). JCCH/Tamio Nakamura Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 167 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) was sent on the second transfer ship for internment 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 from Camp Livingston to Fort Missoula before being transferred to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members. Others were 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 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943 - April 1944
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
April 1944 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Hisashi Fukuhara was born in Kumamoto Prefecture and immigrated to the Hawaiian Islands in 1916. He worked as a barber in Honoka'a on the Big Island and assisted the local Japanese community in dealing the with the Japanese Consulate.
When Fukuhara was released after the war was over, he returned to his barbershop, which his wife had kept open during the war.