Group Media & Photos

Santa Fe Internment Camp, November 1943. Row 1: Mamoru Suga (3rd from R). Row 2 (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (2nd), Yoshio Koike (7th), Katsuichi Wakimoto (12th). Row 3 (L-R): Sadato Morifuji (2nd), Yuichi Nakamura (4th), Futoshi Ohama (5th), Kazuto Taketa (8th), Tetsuo Tanaka (9th), Kogan Yoshizumi (11th). Top Row: Isoo Kato (5th), Mannosuke Komu (8th), Kodo Fujitani (12th/3rd from R). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.

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Internees in front of Buddhist altar, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Front Row (L-R): Ichiro Genishi (1st), Mannosuke Komu (2nd), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (3rd), Rev. Hakuai Oda (4th). Back Row: Yuichi Nakamura (3rd). JCCH/ Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

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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. Row 1 (L-R): Isamu Ueoka (3rd). Row 2: Rev. Joei Oi (3rd), Tsuruichi Sarae (4th), Rev. Sujio Kabashima (8th). Row 3: Rev. Tenran Mori (8th), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (9th), Yuichi Nakamura (10th). Row 4: Mamoru Suga (6th), Kazuto Yokota (7th). JCCH/Patsy Saiki 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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Golf Club, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Soichi Obata (1st), Minoru Murakami (7th, with sign), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (8th). Row 2: Tsuruichi Sarae (1st), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (6th). Row 3: Yuichi Nakamura (1st fr R). Row 4: Hidekichi Nakamoto (4th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). Row 5: Shigeki Mizumoto (1st, with tie), Mamoru Suga (4th), Kinzo Sayegusa (5th). JCCH/Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection.

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Medical group, Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1945. Yuichi Nakamura is #34 in legend on back of photo. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Identification on back of photo of medical group at Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Signatures on back of photo of medical group at Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

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 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

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

Yuichi Nakamura came with his family as a teenager to Kauai Island from his native Hiroshima. He later moved to Honolulu and in 1930 opened a hotel in the city's immigrant A'ala district. He was a member of the Honolulu Japanese Hotel Association, along with some ten other innkeepers. Members who also were interned included Tokuji Baba, Sukeichi Koide, Ichiro Sato, and Jinshichi Tokairin.