Group Media & Photos

Painting exhibition at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, July 1944. Front row (L-R): Setsuzo Toyota (4th), Aisuke Shigekuni (3rd from R). Row 2 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (2nd), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi (3rd), Yoshio Koike (4th), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (5th), Julian P. Langston, Santa Fe camp administrator (6th), Lloyd Jensen, Officer-In-Charge (7th), Masao Ikeno, art instructor (8th), Koshi Tatsuhara (10th). Row 3 (L-R): Rev. Hakuai Oda (3rd), Soichi Obata (4th), Rev. Josen Deme (5th), Rev. Ryuten Kashiwa (10th). Back row (L-R): Osuke Shigemoto (4th), Yasutaro Soga (8th), Masayuki Chikuma (10th), Katsuichi Miho (12th), Koichi Iida (14th), Yoshinobu Kato (15th). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

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Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. Hawaii internees: Row 2 (L-R): Mannosuke Komu (1st, seated), Usaburo Katamoto (2nd, seated), Tetsunosuke Sone (5th), Riuichi Ipponsugi (6th), Yukihide Kohatsu (8th), Hirouemon Yamamoto (9th). Ryuichi Moribe (10th), Ichiji Kinoshita (11th). Row 3: Neichiro Nakagawa (4th), Isoo Kato (6th), Gengo Honda (9th, glasses, facing left), Jiro Yoshizawa (10th), Eijiro Suzuki (11th). Row 4: Taizen Imamura (2nd, at center with tie), Yuichi Nakamura (4th), Tomoye Ikeda (5th). Row 5: Kichisuke Yoda (2nd), Manjiro Konno (3rd), Riichi Togawa (4th), Katsuichi Miho (5th). Back row: Setsuzo Toyota (1st), Unji Hirayama (2nd, white shirt). Inset (L-R): Kenju Ohtomo (1st), Yukihide Kohatsu (2nd), Tomoichi Hayashi (3rd). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Original identifications for photograph of Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Signatures on back of photograph of Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Second Transfer Group (Missoula): March 1942

A group of 167 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) was sent on the second transfer ship for incarceration 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 from Camp Livingston to Fort Missoula before being transferred to the Santa Fe Camp.

From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members under confinement. Others were 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

Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

June 1943 - April 1944

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

April 1944 - November 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.