Group Media & Photos

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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"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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Hawaii internees in front of the Liaison Office at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, January 1945. Front row (L-R): Kumaji Furuya, Shujiro Takakuwa, Mankichi Goto, Chosuke Kayahara, Suekichi Oka, Nisshu Kobayashi, Shuji Mikami, Sadasuke Hamamoto, Konin Matano, Isaku Orita, Makitaro Tamura, Minosuke Hanabusa, Giichi Sasaki, Ryosen Yonahara, Tomiji Kimura, Ninryo Nago, Shin Yoshida. Row 2: Katsuichi Tanaka, Yasuemon Miki, Ryoichi Tanaka, Hatsutaro Toyofuku, Toshio Iinuma, Masaichi Hirashima, Tamaichi Tanaka, Uemon Ida, Kinai Ikuma, Hanzo Shimoda, Yoshizo Ishikawa, William Toka Ida, Katsuichi Kawamoto, Daizo Sumida, Aisuke Shigekuni, Sadato Morifuji. Row 3: Takegoro Kusao, Setsuzo Toyota, Jinshichi Tokairin, Hidekichi Nakamoto, Gendo Okawa, Joei Oi, Yasutaro Soga, Zensuke Kurosawa, Tsunetaro Harada, Tamaki Arita, Hego Fuchino, Kogan Yoshizumi, Osuke Shigemoto, Hakuai Oda, Shinri Sarashina, Yoshinobu Sasaki, Unknown, Seiichi Fujii, Tokikichi Sugimoto, Shuntaro Ikezawa, Goki Tatsuguchi, Suekuma Takaki. Back row: Unknown, Suijo Kabashima, Koichi Iida, Sawajiro Ozaki, Shoho Fujiie, Unknown, Shigeki Mizumoto, Soichi Obata, Muneo Kimura, Yukihide Kohatsu, Tomoichi Hayashi, Kakujiro Nishiki, Takeo Miyagi, Josen Deme, Gikyo Kuchiba, Eita Sato, Ryuichi Kashima, Hideyuki Serizawa, Kinzo Sayegusa. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

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Cast and crew of “Hiroshima miyage to Tamazo” (Hiroshima souvenir and Tamazo), Santa Fe Internment Camp, performed in March 1945. The script for this drama was likely written by an internee. 2nd row from bottom (L-R): Shigeru Yano (10th). 3rd row (L-R): Shigeki Mizumoto (2nd), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (3rd), Masayuki Chikuma (4th), Genpachi Tsushima (7th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (8th). JCCH/Patsy Saiki Archival Collection.

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Kabuki at Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 2 (L-R): Sawajiro Ozaki (4th). Row 3: Tsuneichi Yamamoto (1st), Masayuki Chikuma (2nd), Shigeki Mizumoto (3rd), Genpachi Tsushima (4th), Shoho Fujiie (5th), Shigeru Yano (6th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (7th). Back row: Zenkichi Morita (1st), Kiyoshi James Yonemura (5th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.

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Golf club, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Soichi Obata (1st), Minoru Murakami (7th, with sign), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (8th). Row 2: Tsuruichi Sarae (1st), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (6th). Row 3: Yuichi Nakamura (1st fr R). Row 4: Hidekichi Nakamoto (4th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). Row 5: Shigeki Mizumoto (1st, with tie), Mamoru Suga (4th), Kinzo Sayegusa (5th). 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: January 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group (Missoula): February 1942

A group of 172 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) was sent aboard the military transport ship USS U.S. Grant 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

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

Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

June 1943 - April 1944

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

April 1944 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

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

Shigeki Mizumoto's son Ralph Masakazu Mizumoto served in the U.S. Military Intelligence Service during World War II.