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

Ninth Transfer Group: July 1943

This internee was among thirty-four Issei men who were sent in the ninth transfer group for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan.

Sharp Park Detention Station, California

July 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.