Group Media & Photos
Reverend Kenju Ohtomo. JCCH/Nippu Jiji Collection.
Buddhist priests from Hawaii. Santa Fe Internment Camp, April 1944. Bottom row (L-R): Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi, Rev. Hozui Nakayama, Rev. Shinri Sarashina, Rev. Enryo Shigefuji (Fresno, Calif.), Bishop Ninryo Nago, Rev. Chikyoku Kikuchi, Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama, Rev. Konin Matano, Rev. Yutetsu Matsui, unknown, unknown, Rev. Doro Kanda. Middle row (L-R): Rev. Dojin Ochi (Los Angeles), Rev. Ryuko Tachibana (Los Angeles, formerly of Hawaii), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri, Rev. Gendo Okawa, Rev. Suijo Kabashima, Rev. Tenran Mori, unknown, Rev. Ryuten Kashiwa, Rev. Josen Deme, Rev. Hakuai Oda, Rev. Taizen Imamura, Rev. Hosho Kurohira, Rev. Shunjo Shiratori, Rev. Bunpo Kuwatsuki (Los Angeles), unknown, Rev. Shodo Kawamura. Top row (L-R): Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi, Rev. Jikai Yamasato, Rev. Kenryu Hasegawa, unknown, Rev. Kenju Ohtomo, unknown, Rev. Gikyo Kuchiba, Zenko Saigusa, Rev. Kodo Fujitani, Rev. Kenjo Ohara, Rev. Giko Abiko (Calif.), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi, unknown. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. Hawaii internees: Row 2 (L-R): Mannosuke Komu (1st, seated), Usaburo Katamoto (2nd, seated), Tetsunosuke Sone (5th), Riuichi Ipponsugi (6th), Yukihide Kohatsu (8th), Hirouemon Yamamoto (9th). Ryuichi Moribe (10th), Ichiji Kinoshita (11th). Row 3: Neichiro Nakagawa (4th), Isoo Kato (6th), Gengo Honda (9th, glasses, facing left), Jiro Yoshizawa (10th), Eijiro Suzuki (11th). Row 4: Taizen Imamura (2nd, at center with tie), Yuichi Nakamura (4th), Tomoye Ikeda (5th). Row 5: Kichisuke Yoda (2nd), Manjiro Konno (3rd), Riichi Togawa (4th), Katsuichi Miho (5th). Back row: Setsuzo Toyota (1st), Unji Hirayama (2nd, white shirt). Inset (L-R): Kenju Ohtomo (1st), Yukihide Kohatsu (2nd), Tomoichi Hayashi (3rd). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Original identifications for photograph of Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Signatures on back of photograph of Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: June 1943
Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island
A group of twenty-nine Issei men were sent on the tenth transfer ship for incarceration on the Mainland. Some were later paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family members under confinement.
Sharp Park Detention Station, California
December 1943 - January 1944
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
January 1944 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.