Group Media & Photos

Reunion of former internees from the Kaneohe area, dressed as they were in the internment camp. Bottom Row (L-R): Unknown, Hatsujiro Murahama, Nobutaro Harada, Toshiichi Okabayashi, Giichi Wakamoto, Shigezo Maekawa, Unknown. Top Row: Unknown, Yasuichi Moritsugu, Buichi Matsuoka, Giichi Sasaki, Bannosuke Yoshida, Tokuemon Moritsugu, Takesue Sensei, Unknown, Kansuke Nishiyama, Unknown. JCCH/Nobuo Takeno.

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Reunion of former internees from the Kaneohe area, dressed in post-war business clothes. Bottom Row (L-R): Hatsujiro Murahama, Nobutaro Harada, Unknown, Giichi Sasaki, Takesue Sensei, Unknown, Giichi Wakamoto. Top Row: Buichi Matsuoka, Kansuke Nishiyama, Yasuichi Moritsugu, Unknown, Toshiichi Okabayashi, Unknown, Bannosuke Yoshida, Unknown, Tokuemon Moritsugu, Shigezo Maekawa. JCCH/Nobuo Takeno.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: April 1943

Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island

Paroled: October 1943

All three of Tokuemon Moritsugu's sons served in the U.S. military during the World War II era. Richard Yutaka Moritsugu was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion before being assigned to the army's Military Intelligence Service; Sumito Moritsugu served as an army private; Tim Akira Moritsugu also was a member of the MIS. Richard Yutaka's son -- a grandson of internee Tokuemon Moritsugu -- would become Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu, the first Asian American Surgeon General of the United States.