Group Media & Photos
Buddhist Ministers, Missoula Internment Camp, ca. 1943. Front Row (L-R): Rev. Konin Matano, Rev. Josen Deme, Rev. Yoshio Hino, Rev. Honi Ohye, Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba, Rev. Chikyoku Kikuchi, Rev. Shinri Sarashina, Rev. Shushin Matsubayashi, Rev. Jikai Yamasato. Back Row: Rev. Kenryu Hasegawa, Rev. Shoho Fujiie, Rev. Goki Tatsuguchi, Rev. Hakuai Oda, unknown, Rev. Suijo Kabashima. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport ship 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. This internee was in a sub-group of First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.
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 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943
Kooskia Internment Camp, Idaho
February 1944 - July 1944
Paroled to New York, New York: July 1944
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.