Group Media & Photos
Internees from Kauai. Santa Fe Internment Camp, taken between June 1943 and March 1944. Bottom Row (L-R): Setsugo Togioka (2nd), Koshi Tatsuhara (3rd), Isamu Ueoka (4th), Osuke Shigemoto (5th), Torao Iseri (8th), Rev. Ichiro Uyeda (9th). 2nd Row: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (1st), Rev. Takao Ama (2nd), Kyoichi Uyeda (3rd), Zenkichi Morita (5th), Ikuzo Kuniyuki (6th), Kenichi Hataishi (8th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). 3rd Row: Sunao Fujii (1st), Mankichi Miura (2nd), Kazuto Yokota (3rd), Takeo Seike (4th), Masaji Toyofuku (5th), Shinjiro Matayoshi (6th), Shizuma Tanji (7th), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (8th), Yonezo Kanja (9th), Zenzo Kisada (10th), Ishimatsu Shintani (11th). Top Row: Junzo Mashita (3rd), Jukichi Inouye (5th), Kenji Yoshiura (6th), Kazumi Matsumoto (9th), Gengo Honda (10th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Waimea Jail, Kauai Island
Wailua County Jail, Lihue, Kauai Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
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 from Camp Livingston to Fort Missoula before being transferred 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
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.
An immigrant from Hiroshima Prefecture, Ishimatsu Shintani was a ranch hand and beekeeper at the Robinson Ranch on Niihau Island. A resident there for more than thirty years, he was married to a Native Hawaiian woman and was the father of eight children. He was the only Japanese resident on the island until the arrival of Yoshio and Irene Umeno Harada in the late 1930s.
When a Japanese aviator crash-landed on Niihau on December 7, 1941, Shintani became involved in the chaotic events of the ensuing days, which resulted in the deaths of the pilot and Yoshio Harada. Shintani was arrested and judged to have aided the pilot against the interests of the United States and was thus ordered interned. Also arrested and incarcerated was Irene Umeno Harada, one of only six Hawaii Japanese women to be held at the Honouliuli Internment Camp on Oahu.