Group Media & Photos
First meeting of Kauai Hongwanji missions. Koloa, Kauai, September 1936. Rev. Kyojo Naitoh (front row, 6th from L), Rev. Honi Ohye (1st row, 7th from L). JCCH/Gladys Naitoh Archival Collection.
Buddhist Ministers. Missoula Internment Camp, ca. 1943. Front Row (L-R): Rev. Konin Matano, Rev. Josen Deme, Rev. Yoshio Hino, Rev. Honi Ohye, Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba, Rev. Chikyoku Kikuchi, Rev. Shinri Sarashina, Rev. Shushin Matsubayashi, Rev. Jikai Yamasato. Back Row: Rev. Kenryu Hasegawa, Rev. Shoho Fujiie, Rev. Goki Tatsuguchi, Rev. Hakuai Oda, unknown, Rev. Suijo Kabashima. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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. This internee was in a sub-group of Second Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943
Repatriated to Japan: September 1943
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.
From his place of incarceration on the Mainland, Rev. Honi Ohye repatriated to Japan; his family remained in the islands.
Son Kenji Ohye, a student at the University of Hawaii, volunteered for the Hawaii Territorial Guard and later the Varsity Victory Volunteers, a group of college students who provided manual labor in support of the U.S. Army.
Six months after the war's end, the Ohye family in Hawaii learned of Honi Ohye's death in July 1945 from an American bombing attack on Fukui City.
In early 1946, Kenji Ohye was drafted into the U.S. Army.