Group Media & Photos

Lihue Japanese Christian Church. Easter Sunday, March 24, 1940. Rev. Paul Osumi is in the first row, seventh from left. JCCH/Betsy Young Collection.

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Canal Christian Church. Gila River Concentration Camp, 1943. Rev. Paul Osumi, seated front row (right of center) holding white hat, served as the church's youth minister. JCCH/Paul S. Osumi Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Wailua County Jail, Lihue, Kauai Island

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Fourth Transfer Group: June 1942

This internee was among 39 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the fourth 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. 

Also sent on the same ship were six Issei women internees: Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane. The women were kept apart from the men and had a different internment sequence from them.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

June 1942 - July 1942

Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

July 1942 - March 1943

Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

March 1943 - July 1945

Denver, Colorado

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.