Group Media & Photos
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Japanese Benevolent Society, council members. November 1936. Riuichi Ipponsugi (2nd from L, on bridge), Taichi Sato (7th from L, standing in dark suit, dark hair), Iga Mori (8th from L, dark suit, white hair, glasses), Yasutaro Soga (3rd from R, standing), Daizo Sumida (4th from R, standing), Katsuichi Wakimoto (behind Sumida with white shirt). JCCH/ Harriet Matsunaga Collection.
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Welcome Reception for Tatsuichi Nakamura of the Toyo Paint Manufacturing Company at Mochizuki Teahouse, Honolulu, 1939. Row 1 (L-R): Shoichi Asami (1st). Row 2: Daizo Sumida (1st), Seiichi Tsuchiya (4th). Row 3: Katsuichi Kawamoto (3rd), Katsuichi Wakimoto (4th). JCCH/Seiichi Tsuchiya and Fred Kinzaburo Makino Collection.
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Softball players. Missoula Internment Camp, ca. 1943-1944. Front Row (L-R): Rev. Joei Oi (1st), Rev. Shushin Matsubayashi (3rd), Masayuki Chikuma (5th), Rev. Konin Matano (6th), Osuke Shigemoto (7th), Hideyuki Serizawa (10th), Ichitaro Charles Hasebe. Middle Row (L-R): Rev. Gikyo Kuchiba (1st), Totaro Matsui (2nd), Kinzo Sayegusa (4th), Kumaji Furuya (5th), Sawajiro Ozaki (6th). Back Row (L-R): Rev. Hakuai Oda (2nd), Daizo Sumida (6th), Rev. Josen Deme (10th), Rev. Gendo Okawa (11th), Taichi Sato (13th), Rev. Kaneki Honda (14th), Aisuke Shigekuni (15th), Setsuzo Toyota (16th). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
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In front of an altar, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Front Row (L-R): Aisuke Shigekuni (4th), Yoshio Koike (6th). 3rd Row: Josen Deme (2nd), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (3rd), Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba (5th), Chikyoku Kikuchi (6th), Rev. Konin Matano (7th), Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama (8th); Rev. Hakuai Oda (9th); Rev. Kodo Fujitani (10th). 4th Row: Bishop Ninryo Nago (5th), Rev. Suijo Kabashima (6th), Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi (8th). 5th Row: Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (2nd), Rev. Shoho Fujiye (5th), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (6th), Rev. Teizen Imamura (7th). Back Row: Koichi Iida (11th), Daizo Sumida (12th). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row (L-R): Katsuichi Kawamoto (1st), Ryuichi Moribe (2nd), Uyemon Inokuchi (3rd), Koichi Iida (4th), Shuntaro Ikezawa (5th), Hatsuichi Toishigawa (6th), Yasutaro Soga (7th), Daizo Sumida (8th), Ryoichi Tanaka (9th), Mannosuke Komu (10th). 2nd Row: Heiji Yamagata (1st), Gihei Tanada (2nd), Totaro Matsui (3rd), Kumaji Furuya (4th), Osuke Shigemoto (5th), Rev. Ninryo Nago (6th), Tokuji Onodera (7th), Minoru Murakami (8th), Kanji Tanaka (9th), Shigeo Shigenaga (10th), Shujiro Takakuwa (11th), Yukihide Kohatsu (12th), Mankichi Goto (13th). 3rd Row: Tetsuji Kurokawa (1st), Eita Sato (2nd), Hirouemon Yamamoto (3rd), Hyotaro Nakami (4th), Sadato Morifuji (5th), Ryuichi Murata (6th), Kakujiro Nishiki (7th), Sawajiro Ozaki (8th), Soichi Obata (9th), Masaichi Kobayashi (10th), Kango Hamada (11th), Takasuke Isomura (12th), Katsukichi Wakimoto (13th). Top Row: Yojiro Osaki (1st), Hego Fuchino (2nd), Teiichiro Maehara (3rd), Kinzo Sayegusa (4th), Yuichi Nakaichi (5th), Yoshihisa Tamura (6th), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (7th), Muneo Kimura (8th), Hideo Tanaka (9th), Toraichi Kurakake (10th), Tamasaku Watanabe (11th), Mankichi Miura (12th), Riuichi Ipponsugi (13th). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.
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Sumo Tournament. Santa Fe Internment Camp, August 1944. Standing: Genpachi Tsushima (2nd from L), Kazuto Taketa (11th from L), Rev. Goki Tatsuguchi (14th from L), Rev. Suijo Kabashima (15th from L), Koichi Iida (4th from R), Soichi Obata (3rd from R), Daizo Sumida (2nd from R). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
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Two GIs visiting Santa Fe Internment Camp, January 1945. Front Row (L-R): Osuke Shigemoto (2nd), Shigemoto's son (3rd), Totaro Matsui (5th). Second Row: Daizo Sumida (1st), Kumaji Furuya (2nd), Ryuichi Moribe (3rd), Kogan Yoshizumi (4th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (5th), Sawajiro Ozaki (6th), Koichi Iida (7th). Back Row: Yasutaro Soga (1st), Masayuki Chikuma (3rd), Riuichi Ipponsugi (4th), Kinzo Sayegusa (5th). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.
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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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Kuakini Hospital Building Fund Committee. Honolulu, March 1953. Row 1 (seated, L-R): Tokuji Tsuji (1st), Katsuichi Kawamoto (2nd), Kumaji Furuya (4th), Chomatsu Tsukiyama (5th), Daizo Sumida (6th), Tokuyoshi Awamura (8th), Shigeru Horita (9th). Row 2: Clarence Keiso Karimoto (1st), Masayuki Tokioka (2nd), Motohiro Tanimura (6th), Mannosuke Komu (11th). Row 3: Katsuichi Wakimoto (3rd), Sawajiro Ozaki (5th), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (6th). Row 4: Takeo Isoshima (4th), Shinzaburo Sumida (6th), Katsuro Miho (7th). Row 5: Osuke Shigemoto (1st), Robert Yoichi Sato (4th). JCCH/ Takuzo Kawamoto Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
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 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.