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Five hand-painted wooden birds carved by Meijiro Hayashi at Honouliuli Internment Camp. JCCH/Hayashi Meijiro Collection.

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Internees from Kauai. Santa Fe Camp Internment Camp, taken between June 1943 and March 1944. Bottom row, kneeling and seated (L-R): Shinjiro Matayoshi (1st), Kenji Yoshiura (2nd), Ryozo Izutsu (3rd), Kaetsu Furuya (4th), Yukiyasu Sodetani (5th), Koshi Tatsuhara (6th), Tsuruzo Hasegawa (7th), Rev. Hironori Nishii (9th, on chair). 2nd Row, seated: Mankichi Miura (2nd, without tie), Takeo Seike (3rd), Kameo Tahara, Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (5th), Rev. Hiseki Miyasaki (6th), Rev. Ichiro Uyeda (7th), Yozaemon Yamamoto (8th), Zenzo Kisada (9th), Masaji Toyofuku (10th/4th fr R), Chiyomatsu Hamamura (11th/3rd fr R), Kazuto Yokota (13th/1st fr R). 3rd Row: Zenkichi Morita (1st), Sukenoshin Nakano (2nd), Kazuto Taketa (3rd), Rev. Shoyu Kitajima (4th), Rev. Gijo Ozawa (5th), Rev. Chiko Odate (6th), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (7th, wearing hat), Isuke Horikawa (8th/3rd fr R), Enichi Saiki (9th/2nd fr R), Kyoichi Uyeda (10th/1st fr R). Top Row: Kyushichi Hayashi (2nd), Kenichi Hataishi (4th), Rev. Kyojo Naitoh (5th), Kokichi Tsuji (6th), Katsutaro Yamasaki (7th), Meijiro Hayashi (8th/3rd fr R), Sunao Fujii (9th/2nd fr R), Isamu Ueoka (10th/1st fr R). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Wailua County Jail, Kauai Island

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Eighth Transfer Group: March 1943

This internee was among forty-two Issei men who were sent in the eighth 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.

Sharp Park Detention Station, California

March 1943 - August 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

August 1943

Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

April 1944 - June 1944

Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

June 1944 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: December 1941

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

Before the war, Meijiro Hayashi was an active member of the Hanapepe Japanese Christian Church and the Makaweli PTA. His sons Fumio and Shimei served in the U.S. military during World War II. Fumio Hayashi was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion.