Group Media & Photos
Issei internees from Kauai, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Bottom Row (L-R): Unknown, Isamu Ueoka, Zenzo Kisada, Kazuto Taketa, Yozaemon Yamamoto, Masaji Toyofuku, Kenji Yoshiura, Kokichi Tsuji, unknown. Top Row: Kazuto Yokota, Zenkichi Morita, unknown, Isuke Horikawa, unknown, Kenichi Hataishi, Sunao Fujii, unknown. JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Internees from Kauai at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Front row (L-R): Setsugo Togioka (2nd), Koshi Tatsuhara (3rd), Isami Ueoka (4th), Osuke Shigemoto (5th), Torao Iseri (8th), Rev. Ichiro Uyeda (9th). Row 2: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (1st), Rev. Takao Ama (2nd), Kyoichi Uyeda (3rd), Zenkichi Morita (5th), Ikuzo Kuniyuki (6th), Kenichi Hataishi (8th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). Row 3: Sunao Fujii (1st), Mankichi Miura (2nd), Kazuto Yokota (3rd), Takeo Seike (4th), Masaji Toyofuku (5th), Shinjiro Matayoshi (6th), Shizuma Tanji (7th), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (8th), Yonezo Kanja (9th), Zenzo Kisada (10th), Ishimatsu Shintani (11th). Back row: Junzo Mashita (3rd), Jukichi Inouye (5th), Kenji Yoshiura (6th), Kazumi Matsumoto (9th), Gengo Honda (10th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Internees from Kauai at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Front row, kneeling and seated (L-R): Shinjiro Matayoshi (1st), Kenji Yoshiura (2nd), Ryozo Izutsu (3rd), Kaetsu Furuya (4th), Yukiyasu Sodetani (5th), Koshi Tatsuhara (6th), Tsuruzo Hasegawa (7th), Rev. Hironori Nishii (9th, on chair). Row 2, seated: Mankichi Miura (2nd, without tie), Takeo Seike (3rd), Kameo Tahara, Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (5th), Rev. Hiseki Miyasaki (6th), Rev. Ichiro Uyeda (7th), Yozaemon Yamamoto (8th), Zenzo Kisada (9th), Masaji Toyofuku (4th from R), Chiyomatsu Hamamura (3rd from R), Kazuto Yokota (1st from R). Row 3: Zenkichi Morita (1st), Sukenoshin Nakano (2nd), Kazuto Taketa (3rd), Rev. Shoyu Kitajima (4th), Rev. Gijo Ozawa (5th), Rev. Chiko Odate (6th), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (7th, wearing hat), Isuke Horikawa (3rd from R), Enichi Saiki (2nd from R), Kyoichi Uyeda (1st from R). Back row: Kyushichi Hayashi (2nd), Kenichi Hataishi (4th), Rev. Kyojo Naitoh (5th), Kokichi Tsuji (6th), Katsutaro Yamasaki (7th), Meijiro Hayashi (3rd from R), Sunao Fujii (2nd from R), Isami Ueoka (1st from R). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row: Matsujiro Otani (4th from R). Row 2: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (1st from L, standing), Rev. Doro Kanda (1st from R), Mankichi Miura (2nd from R). Row 3 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (14th), Nekketsu Takei (17th), Tsuruzo Hasegawa (19th from L/6th from R), Katsuichi Kawamoto (20th from L/5th from R). Top row (L-R): Sunao Fujii (4th), Masaichi Kobayashi (8th), Zenkichi Morita (11th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Toramatsu Matsumoto (1st), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (2nd). Row 2 (seated): 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.
Oshibai, Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1944-1945. Row 1 (L-R): Tsuneichi Yamamoto (7th), Masayuki Chikuma (8th/1st fr R). Row 2: Katsuichi Kawamoto (1st), Yuichi Nakaichi (2nd). Row 3: Hamada (3rd frm R), Zenkichi Morita (2nd fr R), Soichi Obata (1st fr R). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
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.
Internment Locations
Wailua County Jail, Lihue, Kauai Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Forty-two Issei men were sent in the eighth transfer group for incarceration 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 under confinement, others were 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.