Group Media & Photos
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Front row 2, seated (L-R): Itsuo Hamada (11th), Wataru Takeshita (12th), Sadashichi Miura (13th), Iwaki Watanabe (16th). Row 3, half row: Akimasa Watanabe (6th), Shigeru Yano (8th). Row 4: Tamezo Takemori (1st), Shigeki Mizumoto (2nd), Tamio Nakamura (5th), Hisashi Fukuhara (7th), Mitsutaka Horiuchi (9th), Toramatsu Matsumoto (10th), Yasuyuki Mizutari (15th), Torao Iseri (17th), Tomoji Matsumura (18th), Toyoki Kimura (21st). Row 5: Kokichi Nakamura (4th), Yoshio Yoshioka (5th), Kiyoshi Yonemura (6th), Gengo Honda (7th), Junzo Mashita (8th), Ushitaro Yonezaki (10th), Kinori Nishino (11th), Chikashi Nakayama (12th), Kentaro Hirashima (13th), Ishima Kusano (14th), Zenzo Kisada (15th), Tatsuji Morimoto (16th), Tatsuo Ito (17th). Row 6: Hideki Takahashi (2nd), Hisatoshi Tanisaki (10th), Takashi Hamada (11th), Kyujiro Nakashima (13th), Sokutaro Ashihara (16th). Row 7: Nejio Sonoda (13th), Takichi Kinoshita (14th), Yaichi Yamamoto (20th). Back row: Kunitaro Takeuchi (2nd), Satoru Hirae (9th). JCCH/Tamio Nakamura Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: July 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Forty-nine men (mostly Issei) were sent in the fifth 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.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
August 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1942 - March 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
March 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Before the war, Chikashi Nakayama was the head instructor at the Lower School of the Hawaii Chuo Gakuin Japanese language school. His wife, Harumi, also was a teacher there, and together they managed the lower school faculty. In addition to Nakayama, a number of other Chuo Gakuin teachers also were incarcerated during the war. They included Teruo Konishi, George Mamoru Nakagawa, Arthur Katsumi Niino, Shozo Takahashi, Jitsuo Takato, Yoshitami Jack Tasaka, Harry Minoru Urata, and Takeo Yamamoto.