Group Media & Photos

Toramatsu Matsumoto, U.S. Department of Justice Alien Registration Card, 1943. JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Front row 2, seated (L-R): Itsuo Hamada (11th), Wataru Takeshita (12th), Sadashichi Miura (13th), Iwaki Watanabe (16th). Row 3, half row: Akimasa Watanabe (6th), Shigeru Yano (8th). Row 4: Tamezo Takemori (1st), Shigeki Mizumoto (2nd), Tamio Nakamura (5th), Hisashi Fukuhara (7th), Mitsutaka Horiuchi (9th), Toramatsu Matsumoto (10th), Yasuyuki Mizutari (15th), Torao Iseri (17th), Tomoji Matsumura (18th), Toyoki Kimura (21st). Row 5: Kokichi Nakamura (4th), Yoshio Yoshioka (5th), Kiyoshi Yonemura (6th), Gengo Honda (7th), Junzo Mashita (8th), Ushitaro Yonezaki (10th), Kinori Nishino (11th), Chikashi Nakayama (12th), Kentaro Hirashima (13th), Ishima Kusano (14th), Zenzo Kisada (15th), Tatsuji Morimoto (16th), Tatsuo Ito (17th). Row 6: Hideki Takahashi (2nd), Hisatoshi Tanisaki (10th), Takashi Hamada (11th), Kyujiro Nakashima (13th), Sokutaro Ashihara (16th). Row 7: Nejio Sonoda (13th), Takichi Kinoshita (14th), Yaichi Yamamoto (20th). Back row: Kunitaro Takeuchi (2nd), Satoru Hirae (9th). JCCH/Tamio Nakamura Collection.

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Men from Kumamoto Prefecture at Santa Fe Internment Camp. Front row (L-R): Kazuyuki Kawano (1st), Toramatsu Matsumoto (3rd). Back row: Kiyoshi James Yonemura (3rd), Genpachi Tsushima (4th), Shigeru Yano (5th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.

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"Broadcast Department" members, Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1944-1945. Bottom row (L-R): Masayuki Chikuma (2nd), Shigeru Yano (3rd), Shigeki Mizumoto (4th), Yuichi Nakaichi (5th). Middle row: Minoru Murakami (2nd), Genpachi Tsushima (3rd), Kumaji Furuya (6th). Top row: Toramatsu Matsumoto (1st), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (3rd), Totaro Matsui (4th), Rev. Kodo Fujitani (5th). JCCH/Pat Saiki Archival Collection.

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Toramatsu Matsumoto (left) and Genpachi Tsushima (right), Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Collection.

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The Cross of the Martyrs, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Front row (L-R): Matsujiro Otani (1st). Back row: Shigeru Yano (2nd), Toramatsu Matsumoto (8th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Toramatsu Matsumoto (1st), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (2nd). Row 2 (seated): Yozaemon Yamamoto (5th), Yuichi Nakaichi (8th/2nd fr R). Row 3: Zenkichi Morita (3rd), Kiyoshi Yonemura (9th/3rd fr R). Top row: Hironori Nishii (1st), Sunao Fujii (6th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1: Katsukichi Kida (5th from R). Row 3: Mamoru Suga (3rd from L), Seiichi Fujii (4th from L). JCCH/ Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Row 2 (L-R): Kumaji Furuya (4th), Mamoru Suga (10th, in back of man with black shirt and suspenders), Shigeki Mizumoto (13th), Genpachi Tsushima (14th), Shigeru Yano (15th). Row 3: Toramatsu Matsumoto (15th, directly behind Genpachi Tsushima). JCCH/Mamoru Suga Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: October 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

October 1942 - March 1943

Eighth Transfer Group: March 1943

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.

Toramatsu Matsumoto's daughter, Shizue, was the wife of journalist and language school teacher Genpachi Tsushima, who also was incarcerated. The two men spent most of their confinement together in Santa Fe.