Group Media & Photos

Hawaii Internees in front of Liaison Office. Santa Fe Internment Camp, January 1945. Front Row (L-R): Kumaji Furuya, Shujiro Takakuwa, Mankichi Goto, Chosuke Kayahara, Suekichi Oka, Nisshu Kobayashi, Shuji Mikami, Sadasuke Hamamoto, Konin Matano, Isaku Orita, Makitaro Tamura, Minosuke Hanabusa, Giichi Sasaki, Ryosen Yonahara, Tomiji Kimura, Ninryo Nago, Shin Yoshida. 2nd Row: Katsuichi Tanaka, Yasuemon Miki, Ryoichi Tanaka, Hatsutaro Toyofuku, Toshio Iinuma, Masaichi Hirashima, Tamaichi Tanaka, Uemon Ida, Kinai Ikuma, Hanzo Shimoda, Yoshizo Ishikawa, Taira Ida, Katsuichi Kawamoto, Daizo Sumida, Aisuke Shigekuni, Sadato Morifuji. 3rd Row: Takegoro Kusao, Setsuzo Toyota, Jinshichi Tokairin, Hidekichi Nakamoto, Gendo Okawa, Joei Oi, Yasutaro Soga, Zensuke Kurosawa, Tsunetaro Harada, Tamaki Arita, Hego Fuchino, Kogan Yoshizumi, Osuke Shigemoto, Hakuai Oda, Shinri Sarashina, Yoshinobu Sasaki, Unknown, Seiichi Fujii, Tokikichi Sugimoto, Shuntaro Ikezawa, Goki Tatsuguchi, Suekuma Takaki. Back Row: unknown, Suijo Kabashima, Koichi Iida, Sawajiro Ozaki, Shoho Fujiie, unknown, Shigeki Mizumoto, Soichi Obata, Muneo Kimura, Yukihide Kohatsu, Tomoichi Hayashi, Kakujiro Nishiki, Takeo Miyagi, Josen Deme, Gikyo Kuchiba, Eita Sato, Ryuichi Kashima, Hideyuki Serizawa, Kinzo Sayegusa. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

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Reunion of former internees from the Kaneohe area, dressed as they were in the internment camp. Bottom Row (L-R): unknown, Hatsujiro Murahama, Nobutaro Harada, Toshiichi Okabayashi, Giichi Wakamoto, Shigezo Maekawa, unknown. Top Row: unknown, Yasuichi Moritsugu, Buichi Matsuoka, Giichi Sasaki, Bannosuke Yoshida, Tokuemon Moritsugu, Takesue Sensei, unknown, Kansuke Nishiyama, unknown. JCCH/Nobuo Takeno.

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Reunion of former internees from the Kaneohe area, dressed in post-war business clothes. Bottom Row (L-R): Hatsujiro Murahama, Nobutaro Harada, unknown, Giichi Sasaki, Takesue Sensei, unknown, Giichi Wakamoto. Top Row: Buichi Matsuoka, Kansuke Nishiyama, Yasuichi Moritsugu, Unknown, Toshiichi Okabayashi, unknown, Bannosuke Yoshida, unknown, Tokuemon Moritsugu, Shigezo Maekawa. JCCH/Nobuo Takeno.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group (Missoula): February 1942

This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees 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 First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

March 1942

Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

March 1942 - May 1942

Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

May 1942 - June 1942

Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

June 1942 - June 1943

Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

June 1943 - April 1944

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

April 1944 - October 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.

Giichi Sasaki's two sons, Kenichi Sasaki and Kaoru Sasaki, served in the U.S. Army during World War II.