Group Media & Photos

Shingon Buddhist ministers and supporters at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, 1944. Front row (L-R): Manjiro Konno (1st), Kanekichi Yanagihara (2nd), Rev. Shodo Kawamura (5th), Teiji Kawamata (7th), Ganta Sugimura (8th). Row 2: Ryozo Izutsu (1st), Masasuke Ishikawa (2nd), Rev. Myoshu Sasai (3rd), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (4th), Rev. Tetsuei Katoda (6th), Sadaichi Suzuki (7th), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (8th), Rev. Yuko Nonomura (10th), Takazo Arita (11th), Takejiro Nakagawa (12th). Row 3: Usaburo Katamoto (3rd), Kazuaki Tanaka (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). Back row: Rev. Hosho Kurohira (1st), Rev. Jitsuryu Tanaka (2nd), Aisuke Kuniyuki (3rd), Genzo Suzuki (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: September 1942

Haiku Detention Camp, Maui Island

Transferred to Oahu Island: October 1942

This internee was in a group of ten men who arrived on Oahu from Maui Island.

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

October 1942 - March 1943

Eighth Issei Transfer Group

Forty-two Issei men were sent in the eighth transfer group for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members under confinement, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.

Sharp Park Detention Station, California

March 1943 - August 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

August 1943 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

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

Masasuke Ishikawa's son, Toshio Ishikawa, a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was injured in fighting in Italy in the summer of 1944.