Group Media & Photos

Toramatsu Matsumoto. Alien Registration Card, October 23, 1943. JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima collection

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Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1943-1945. Bottom, Row 2 (L-R): Itsuo Hamada (11th), Wataru Takeshita (12th), Sadashichi Miura (13th/4th from R), Iwaki Watanabe (16th/1st). 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/7th from R), Torao Iseri (17th/5th), Tomoji Matsumura (18th/4th), Toyoki Kimura (21st/1st). 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/ 7th from R), Kentaro Hirashima (13th/6th), Ishima Kusano (14th/5th), Zenzo Kisada (15th/4th), Tatsuji Morimoto (16th/3rd), Tatsuo Ito (17th/2nd). Row 6: Hideki Takahashi (2nd), Hisatoshi Tanisaki (10th), Takashi Hamada (11th), Kyujiro Nakashima (13th/5th from R), Sokutaro Ashihara (16th/2nd). Row 7: Nejio Sonoda (13th), Takichi Kinoshita (14th), Yaichi Yamamoto (20th/3rd from R). Row 8: Kunitaro Takeuchi (2nd), Satoru Hirae (9th). JCCH/Tamio Nakamura 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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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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Toramatsu Matsumoto (left) and Genpachi Tsushima (right) in the snow at Santa Fe Internment Camp. 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): Shigeru Yano (4th), 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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Internment Locations

Arrested: October 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Eighth Transfer Group: March 1943

This internee was among forty-two Issei men who were sent in the eighth 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.

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 interned. The two men spent most of their confinement together in Santa Fe.