Group Media & Photos
Buddhist ministers from Hawaii. Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1942-1943. Bottom Row (L-R): Daishin Ikejiri, Kogan Yoshizumi, Zenkai Kokuzo, Ninryo Nago, Ryoyu Kitajima, Nozaki (not from Hawaii), Shunjo Shiratori, Teizen Imamura. Middle Row: Tetsuo Tanaka, Ikeda, Shoyu Kitajima, Shuzui Hino, Taigaku Ueshima, Gijo Ozawa, Ryuko Tachibana, Gyokuei Matsuura. Top Row: Kenko Yamashita (not from Hawaii), [Mitsuomi] Yamane, Kozan Nishizawa, Tetsuei Katoda, Ryudo Kubota, [Tessui] Hanada, Koetsu Morita. JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
Tennis club, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Front row (L-R): Genpachi Tsushima (2nd), Shoyu Kitajima (5th). Back row: Tsuruzo Hasegawa (3rd from L), Gyokuei Matsuura (2nd from R). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: January 1942
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
February 1942 - March 1942
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 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.