Group Media & Photos
Reunion of former internees from the Kaneohe area, dressed as they were in the internment camp. Bottom Row (L-R): Unknown, Hatsujiro Murahama, Nobutaro Harada, Toshiichi Okabayashi, Giichi Wakamoto, Shigezo Maekawa, Unknown. Top Row: Unknown, Yasuichi Moritsugu, Buichi Matsuoka, Giichi Sasaki, Bannosuke Yoshida, Tokuemon Moritsugu, Takesue Sensei, Unknown, Kansuke Nishiyama, Unknown. JCCH/Nobuo Takeno.
Reunion of former internees from the Kaneohe area, dressed in post-war business clothes. Bottom Row (L-R): Hatsujiro Murahama, Nobutaro Harada, Unknown, Giichi Sasaki, Takesue Sensei, Unknown, Giichi Wakamoto. Top Row: Buichi Matsuoka, Kansuke Nishiyama, Yasuichi Moritsugu, Unknown, Toshiichi Okabayashi, Unknown, Bannosuke Yoshida, Unknown, Tokuemon Moritsugu, Shigezo Maekawa. JCCH/Nobuo Takeno.
Internment Locations
Arrested: January 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 172 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent aboard the military transport ship USS U.S. Grant for internment 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 directly from Camp Livingston to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members. Others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
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
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - March 1944
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
March 1944 - May 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
May 1944 - November 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.