Group Media & Photos

Internees originally from Ehime Prefecture. Santa Fe Internment Camp, July 1943. Hawaii internees: Row 1 (L-R): Kazuaki Tanaka (2nd), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (4th). Row 2: Wasaburo Uranaka (4th), Takeo Seike (9th). Row 3: Usaburo Katamoto (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Shingon ministers and supporters. Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1944. 1st Row (L-R): Manjiro Konno (1st), Kanekichi Yanagihara (2nd), Rev. Shodo Kawamura (5th), Teiji Kawamata (7th), Iwata Sugimura (8th). 2nd Row (L-R): Ryozo Izutsu (1st), Masasuke Ishikawa (2nd), Rev. Myoshu Sasai (3rd), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (4th), Rev. Tetsuei Katoda (6th), Sadaichi (Teiichi) Suzuki (7th), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (8th), Rev. Yuko Nonomura (10th), Takazo Arita (11th), Takejiro Nakagawa (12th). 3rd Row (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (3rd), Kazuaki Tanaka (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). 4th row (L-R): Rev. Hosho Kurohira (1st), Rev. Jitsuryu Tanaka (2nd), Aisuke Kuniyuki (3rd), Genzo Suzuki (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: January 1942

Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Second Transfer Group: March 1942

A group of 167 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. Together, the men were sent from camp to camp.

In June 1943, this transfer group was split into two, with this group sent directly from Camp Livingston to the Santa Fe Camp.

From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members. Others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.

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

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943

Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

December 1943 - May 1944

Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - November 1945

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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