Group Media & Photos

Barracks 62, Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1943. Row 1: Rev. Shunjo Shiratori (8th), Rev. Tetsuo Tanaka (9th), Takejiro Nakagawa (11th), Koshi Tatsuhara (12th). Row 2: Ryuichi Moribe (1st), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (2nd), Katsuichi Wakimoto (8th). Row 3: Yoshio Koike (6th), Futoshi Ohama (8th), Nekketsu Takei (10th), Kazuto Taketa (15th), Masaichi Kobayashi (18th; OR: 6th from R). Row 5: Yuichi Nakamura (2nd), Usaburo Katamoto (5th). JCCH/ Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1944. Left Row 1 (L-R): Takejiro Nakagawa (1st), Yasutaro Soga (2nd). Right Row 1: Rev. Shoyu Kitajima (1st); Row 2: Yoshio Koike (1st), Yuichi Nakamura (2nd), Nekketsu Takei (4th); Row 3: Rev. Gijo Ozawa (2nd, glasses). Center, Back: Rev. Kyodo Fujihana (seated), Rev. Ninryo Nago (standing, beard). JCCH/Anonymous donor.

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Shingon ministers and supporters. Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1944. 1st Row (L-R): Manjiro Konno (1st), Kanekichi Yanagihara (2nd), Rev. Shodo Kawamura (5th), Teiji Kawamata (7th), Iwata Sugimura (8th). 2nd Row (L-R): Ryozo Izutsu (1st), Masasuke Ishikawa (2nd), Rev. Myoshu Sasai (3rd), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (4th), Rev. Tetsuei Katoda (6th), Sadaichi (Teiichi) Suzuki (7th), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (8th), Rev. Yuko Nonomura (10th), Takazo Arita (11th), Takejiro Nakagawa (12th). 3rd Row (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (3rd), Kazuaki Tanaka (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). 4th row (L-R): Rev. Hosho Kurohira (1st), Rev. Jitsuryu Tanaka (2nd), Aisuke Kuniyuki (3rd), Genzo Suzuki (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: April 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Third Transfer Group: May 1942

This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship 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.

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 - November 1944

Amache (Granada) Concentration Camp, Colorado

November 1944 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

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

Takejiro Nakagawa's son, Rusty Seishiro Nakagawa, served in the U.S. military during World War II as a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion.