Group Media & Photos

Group in front of Aala Market Place, Honolulu. Front Row (L-R): Seiichi Shimamoto (1st), Matsujiro Otani (2nd). JCCH/Seiichi Shimamoto Collection.

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Honolulu businessmen, ca. 1950. Front Row (L-R): Matsujiro Otani (1st), Taichi Sato (2nd), Sadato Morifuji (3rd), Katsuichi Kawamoto (5th), Nekketsu Takei (6th), Soichi Obata (8th). Row 2: Seiichi Shimamoto (5th). Row 3: Manzuchi Hashimoto (6th), Ozuke Shigemoto (7th). Back Row: Katsuichi Wakimoto (6th), Motohiro Tanimura (7th), Yuichi Nakaichi (10th). JCCH/Charles and Claire Richardson.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island

Paroled: September 1943

Two of Seiichi Shimamoto's sons, Bernard Hideo Shimamoto and Yoshio Shimamoto, served during World War II as trained linguists with the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service.

After the war, Shimamoto worked for the M. Otani Company, established by fellow internee Matsujiro Otani.