Group Media & Photos

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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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Third Transfer Group: May 1942

A group of 109 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the third transfer ship for internment 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, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

June 1942

Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

June 1942

Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1942 - June 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

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

Yasuyuki Mizutari's oldest son, Yukitaka Terry Mizutari, was inducted into the U.S. Army a month before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He trained with members of the 100th Infantry Battalion at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, which also was the site of an Army internment camp that confined first-generation Japanese Americans. Yukitaka received linguistics training at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Camp Savage, Minnesota, and then served as a Japanese language interpreter in the Pacific Theater. He was killed in action in New Guinea in June 1944.