Group Media & Photos

Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1943. (L-R): Tsuruichi Sarae, Matsutaro Shimizu, Shinichi Hasebe, Kiyoichi Koide, Usaburo Katamoto, Katsukichi Kida. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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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.

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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.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Isamu Ueoka (3rd). Row 2: Rev. Joei Oi (3rd), Tsuruichi Sarae (4th), Rev. Sujio Kabashima (8th). Row 3: Rev. Tenran Mori (8th), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (9th), Yuichi Nakamura (10th). Row 4: Mamoru Suga (6th), Kazuto Yokota (7th). JCCH/Patsy Saiki Archival Collection.

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Golf Club, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Soichi Obata (1st), Minoru Murakami (7th, with sign), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (8th). Row 2: Tsuruichi Sarae (1st), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (6th). Row 3: Yuichi Nakamura (1st fr R). Row 4: Hidekichi Nakamoto (4th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). Row 5: Shigeki Mizumoto (1st, with tie), Mamoru Suga (4th), Kinzo Sayegusa (5th). JCCH/Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

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 - June 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - December 1945

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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

Tsuruichi Sarae's younger brother Susumu Sarae served in the U.S. Army during World War II.