Group Media & Photos
Painting exhibition at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, July 1944. Front row (L-R): Setsuzo Toyota (4th), Aisuke Shigekuni (3rd from R). Row 2 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (2nd), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi (3rd), Yoshio Koike (4th), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (5th), Julian P. Langston, Santa Fe camp administrator (6th), Lloyd Jensen, Officer-In-Charge (7th), Masao Ikeno, art instructor (8th), Koshi Tatsuhara (10th). Row 3 (L-R): Rev. Hakuai Oda (3rd), Soichi Obata (4th), Rev. Josen Deme (5th), Rev. Ryuten Kashiwa (10th). Back row (L-R): Osuke Shigemoto (4th), Yasutaro Soga (8th), Masayuki Chikuma (10th), Katsuichi Miho (12th), Koichi Iida (14th), Yoshinobu Kato (15th). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 167 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) was sent on the second transfer ship for incarceration 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 under confinement. 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.