Group Media & Photos
Liaison Office, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Front Row (L-R): Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (4th). Back row (L-R): Rev. Shodo Kawamura (1st), Rev. Taizen Imamura (3rd), Kosuke Hirose (6th), Haruo Koike (11th). JCCH/Meiji Hirose Collection.
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Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among forty-nine men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the fifth 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.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
August 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1942
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Shortly after returning home from internment, Haruo Koike joined his wife, Fusayo, in hosting "The Yamato Program," a Japanese language show on Maui radio station KMVI. The Koikes would continue on, sharing Japanese culture and community information with their audiences six days a week for more than 30 years.