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.

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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.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: January 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group: February 1942

This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant 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

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.