Group Media & Photos
Santa Fe Internment Camp, July 1943. Bottom Row (L-R): Ninryo Nago (5th), Rev. Kodo Fujitani (8th). 2nd Row: Matsujiro Otani (1st), Tsuruichi Sarae (3rd), Katsuichi Kawamoto (6th), Ryuten Kashiwa (10th). 3rd Row: Riuichi Ipponsugi (1st), Yasutaro Soga (3rd). 4th row: Kazuyuki Kawano (3rd), Rev. Tenran Mori (5th). Top row: Hirouemon Yamamoto (2nd). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row: Matsujiro Otani (4th from R). Row 2: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (1st from L, standing), Rev. Doro Kanda (1st from R), Mankichi Miura (2nd from R). Row 3 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (14th), Nekketsu Takei (17th), Tsuruzo Hasegawa (19th from L/6th from R), Katsuichi Kawamoto (20th from L/5th from R). Top row (L-R): Sunao Fujii (4th), Masaichi Kobayashi (8th), Zenkichi Morita (11th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Shinjiro Matayoshi (2nd), Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi (5th), Rev. Zenko Saigusa (6th). Row 2: Kazuyuki Kawano (2nd), Takeo Seike (3rd), Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (4th), Mankichi Miura (5th), Matsujiro Otani (7th), Rev. Kenjyo Ohara (8th), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri (9th). Row 3: Rev. Doro Kanda (2nd, with tie), Hirouemon Yamamoto (4th), Tsuruichi Sarae (6th), Rev. Tenran Mori (7th), Sukenoshin Nakano (1st fr R). Row 4: Riuichi Ipponsugi (2nd). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.
Internees. Cross of the Martyrs, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Front row (L-R): Matsujiro Otani (1st). Back row: Shigeru Yano (2nd), Toramatsu Matsumoto (8th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom row (L-R): Ryuichi Moribe (5th), Nekketsu Takei (6th), Matsujiro Otani (7th), Yasutaro Soga (8th). Top row (L-R): Mannosuke Komu (1st), Katsuichi Kawamoto (2nd), Masaichi Kobayashi (5th), Sadato Morifuji (6th), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (7th). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
Group in front of Aala Market Place, Honolulu. Front Row (L-R): Seiichi Shimamoto (1st), Matsujiro Otani (2nd). JCCH/Seiichi Shimamoto Collection.
Izumo Taisha Fall Festival, 1962. Row 1 (L-R): Rev. Shigemaru Miyao (3rd), Rev. Shigeo Fujino (4th), Masayuki Chikuma (6th). Row 2: Soichi Obata (1st), Sen. Daniel Inouye (5th), Kaoru Oota (6th). Row 3: Matsujiro Otani (L of Inouye). Back Row: Yoshio Koike (2nd). JCCH/Nancy M. Fujino Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
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 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - July 1944
Amache (Granada) Concentration Camp, Colorado
July 1944 - September 1945